User talk:Eurocommuter~commonswiki

choppy svg vs png

Re:

Thanks for contributing this. But it is very puzzling to me. I would think SVG would be a great format for this sort of diagram, but was surprised to see that it is over 200 kB long, and does not scale well. Is there a way you can generate such images in ways that take advantages of svg's strengths? Or would it be better to just produce .png images instead, which would be smaller and easier for some people to access? --Nealmcb 00:24, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

You’re absolutely right. These SVG orbit images are (a poor) by-product of my program (written for diagrams and not orbits) and I never got around to produce a better svg. The orbits svg are actually generated as 1 pixel line which is from SVG perspective wasteful. An editor actually already transformed one of my images to a reasonable version (elliptic arc instead of short lines). I’m looking into this. Please feel free to transform/re-draw if you wish. The underlining reason, but not an excuse, is that SVG is 2D and I’m making 3D transformations so I found it quicker to use and transform paths instead of elliptic arcs. Given limited time and my belief that a dozen articles needed it, I wanted to get a ‘draft’ out and improve later. On the specific point of png, at the time of writing my program (February) I did not have a PNG encoder for Java. I believe one is available now. Technical suggestions welcome. Eurocommuter 01:14, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

about that kuiper svg

Hello Eurocommuter. (in response to a comment on my talk) Thank you. I'm afraid I have to disappoint you. What I did was simple hand-work. I loaded the SVG into Inkscape, and used the benzier-curve tool to draw lines over the ones your plotter created. Afterwards I deleted the small pieces of line, to that there was only the arc left.

I used your SVG, and kept the objects that were good, e.g. the planets, the text. Feel free to do it that way too, but it sure takes a lot of time, especcially when the line changes colour on the way (you have to split it into two). The reason I did it was that I thought it was rendered strange (because the line was tagged), but i soon found out why :P --Ysangkok 21:54, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

Image:TheKuiperBelt Albedo and Color.svg

Would it be possible to edit this image so that the names are more legible? Especially Chariklo? Rmhermen 18:30, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

I can try to the change the size of the font but the actual rendering is unfortunately done on the wiki server as svg -> png conversion, so I (the svg file) cannot control the result. What you see is this png file, further resized by your browser. Sorry if I tell you what you already know. I was unhappy with the result myself so I’ll try to pick up a different font size/family (more graphs are affected by the problem you raised).Eurocommuter 20:19, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

I’ve played with different font families and size but basically with no improvement. Even without rescaling the text rendering is poor. I’ll dig more into it later. Eurocommuter 20:09, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

Re: Image:ThePlanetDefinition3.png

It seems that Ceres has been classified as a dwarf planet: " The first members of the "dwarf planet" category are Ceres, Pluto and 2003 UB313 (temporary name)" [1]. Is it possible to revise the image to include Ceres in the dwarf planet box? It's difficult to use the image otherwise.RandomCritic 14:36, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

Sorted. Eurocommuter 17:20, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

Sorry to be so late on this: The "boundary conditions to be defined" points to the gap between planets and dwarfs. It should also point to the gap between dwarfs and small bodies. Also, the "to be named" is now "plutoid" (except maybe it isn't *sigh*), and Quaoar would be in it. 206.130.91.227 20:58, 25 January 2014 (UTC)

8 TNO artist's impression

Um, wouldn't it only be that size when clicked on and opened to a larger size? If someone clicks on the image to expand, then they should be prepared for, well, a large image. OsgoodeLawyer 19:59, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

Images in the article 1 Ceres

I just wanted to let you know that I'm planning to create a detailed diagram of the orbit of Ceres, it will include the orbits of all the inner planets and maybe Jupiter's orbit, I think it may give more perspective and make the orbit easier to imagine. It won't contain the images of the planets to avoid a false sense of scale. And another diagram to show the inclination of Ceres' orbit with the same amount of detail. These two diagrams may substitute the two diagrams you made which are Image:ThePlanets Orbits Ceres Mars PolarView.svg and Image:ThePlanets Orbits Ceres Mars.svg. You can check out the orbit diagrams of Sedna and Eris in their respective articles to see what I mean.

I thought it would be rude to do that without telling you, and maybe you have a good reason why yours should stay, maybe you want to create the diagrams yourself. I hope to hear from you soon on my user talk page. I'm not going to do anything before I hear from you :)

Best Regards, Orionist 21:47, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

By all means, please replace. Just make the graphs informative and not only ‘artist impressions’ for wide public. Some Wikipedia articles are becoming just another ‘café’ site in spite of the efforts of the project members to keep them encyclopaedic. Appreciate your warning. Regards Eurocommuter 10:30, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

Image:TheKuiperBelt Orbits Pluto Polar.svg

In the image TheKuiperBelt Orbits Pluto Polar.svg, it is ambiguous which orbit pluto lies on. If the circle representing Pluto could be moved to a slightly different position on its orbit (anywhere except where it crosses Neptune's orbit) I believe this will fix the problem. Kaldari 21:06, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

Well, the diagram shows the current (2006) position of Pluto. The colours used should facilitate the association with the orbits. Eurocommuter 11:22, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

Update needed

Several new moons of Saturn (and one of Jupiter) have received new names. Please update the diagrams where they appear. The new names are:

• Aegir (S/2004 S 10)
• Bebhionn (S/2004 S 11)
• Bergelmir (S/2004 S 15)
• Bestla (S/2004 S 18)
• Farbauti (S/2004 S 9)
• Fenrir (S/2004 S 16)
• Fornjot (S/2004 S 8)
• Hati (S/2004 S 14)
• Hyrokkin (S/2004 S 19)
• Kari (S/2006 S 2)
• Loge (S/2006 S 5)
• Skoll (S/2006 S 8)
• Surtur (S/2006 S 7)

And

• Kore (S/2003 J 14)

Urhixidur 22:01, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

Image:TheTransneptunians Size Albedo Color.svg

Since I also artistically contribute to Wikipedia I felt the most respectful course of action is to give you an explanation of what I'm doing in order to avoid any offense or misunderstanding. I'm removing this diagram from the article dwarf planet, not because of the quality of the image (which is good, it's a great diagram of TNOs) but because it also lists satellites like Charon which can not be dwarf planets and therefore makes it a poor choice for the article. Anynobody 07:42, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

No problem! Thank you for letting me know. Eurocommuter 15:23, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

Grand contournement de Paris

Your map needs an update, since is only contains the second solutions of the GCP and a lot of parts of the first solution are missing (N31 Rouen-Reims; N154/A154 Rouen-Artenay). The A10 is no part of the GPC. --93.229.103.10 11:45, 12 March 2012 (UTC) Edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_contournement_de_Paris

• Done. Sorry, it's been a while since I regenerated these maps. Eurocommuter (talk) 00:28, 22 February 2013 (UTC)

Thank you :) {the IP who's making the route nationale articles in german language} --93.220.245.27 22:50, 22 May 2013 (UTC)

File:France A6X A63.svg

Hello Eurocommuter, can you remnove the N10 labeling on this image, since this motorway is fully named A63 and N10 does not exist anymore.Cruks (talk) 22:00, 26 April 2013 (UTC)

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