Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/pi 4000 digits

pi with 4000 digits

Few days ago I saw an image 0.999999999 which received considerable support with a poor quality. I though that this photo, which is IMHO encyclopedic, eye pleasing and also representing Dielectric Shaders and 3D models can be a good addition to FP considering that a wikipedian made it. It contains more than 4000 digits of pi. Here is 3 different colors of it; It appears is pi articles and it's made by User:Don bertone

• Nominate and support all. - Arad 02:07, 17 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Oppose First of all, I doubt 3 images that are so similar could all be featured, but I appreciate giving the voters options on which color they like best. That said, I feel that these images are not encyclopedic. How does this illustrate π? Did you happen to check out the animation that clearly illustrates π that was featured? This image does not help me understand the concept of π, and hardly any of the numbers are visible at this resolution. As for Dielectric Shaders, I feel that other images at that page do a better job of illustrating that concept as well. These images aren't terrible by any means, but they do not really meet my standards for being featured.--Andrew c 02:28, 17 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

• I think if anything, it helps illustrate the concept of "the decimal representation of pi". Debivort 02:44, 17 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

• Oppose Absolutely unencyclopedic. --Janke | Talk 05:20, 17 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Oppose Unencyclopedic. 4000 digits? Well maybe, but I can only clearly read the first 21 of them. Besides, same problem than with 0.99999: what is the size ratio between each digit? What is it supposed to show that Pi is "infinite"? Well but so is 5/7 for example. If you find a way to graphically show that Pi is transcendental for example, that may be encyclopedic -Glaurung 06:51, 17 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment Sorry, I'm afraid it won't be possible to graphically represent 4 000 digits with only 1280 pixels available... The rendering is quite attractive though. Alvesgaspar 09:42, 17 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

• About the 4000 digits, I'll recheck with the creator. --Arad 13:52, 17 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

• Oppose, this is overdone. We already have a
  Mailer Diablo 15:40, 17 November 2006 (UTC)[reply
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• Oppose, IMHO it fails FPC criterion 3 - to be Wikipedia's best work,
  Pstuart84 22:54, 17 November 2006 (UTC)[reply
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• Oppose, I understand the point that you're trying to make with these pics, that pi goes on forever, but it doesn't work well with this because pi is irrational so it doesn't convey the same kind of message.--th

e marble 05:57, 18 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment - Yes, pi is irrational, but that doesn't mean it's undefined, right? Pi goes on forever, so this picture tries to illustrate that. It doesn't do a particularly good job of it though. --Iriseyes 04:02, 19 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

• Oppose More encyclopedically depicted in a text file. HighInBC ^{(Need help? Ask me)} 14:35, 18 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Oppose Don't really see the value in it. Mikemill 05:41, 21 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • the value is aproximately 3.142 ;-) --Dschwen 23:23, 22 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
    • Heh, touché Mikemill 15:27, 23 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted Raven4x4x 05:44, 25 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]