User talk:Wapcaplet/Archive 4

Adrian Wapcaplet is from a well-known Monty Pothon's Flying Circus episode. He agrees to sell a man's string collection for extermination purposes. "If they're bigger than a mouse you can strangle them and if they're smaller than a mouse, you can flog them to death with it." Good times, everybody..good times. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Special:Contributions/ (talk)

Radiosity Ball Image
Hi Eric, just wanted to check with you before I replaced your radiosity ball image with another image. The new image is in the discussion of the Radiosity article. Any comments/suggestions? Rocketmagnet 22:02, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Perspective Distortion
Eric - you did some pro upgrading to some of my illustrations in Perspective Distortion a few years back.. Thanks again.....my question: Do you use SVG for your line drawings to post to Wiki? They seem to strongly recommend it but notice most (all?) of yours are PNG..... pat kelso

County Maps
Hi, Wapcaplet, I know you are the one instrumental in the U.S. County Map Project. I am an amateur cartographer. I was wondering if you could inform me as how to make my own state county maps using multiple colors, different colors, etc. in that format. Thanks. --User:JoSePh 27 August 2006 5:46 PM

Image:WMD.png
I am currently working on Danish Wikipedia about NBC-weapons and would very much like to use your WMD.png illustration. So if you would upload it to Wikimedia Commons it would easy my job a lot. Thank you in advance. --EPO 14:19, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
 * In lack of response I have uploaded the file myself (WMD.png). Of course crediting you. --EPO 13:34, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Request
Hi Wapcaplet,

My name is Fernanda Viégas and I have been studying Wikipedia for a while now (you can see a paper I published on the subject here). I would like to ask you a few questions about your activities as a Wikipedia image creator. I am fascinated by the pictorial side of Wikipedia and it would be great to hear about this community from one of its members. Would you be available to participate an email survey? Thanks, &mdash; Fernanda 00:40, 4 April 2006 (UTC) | talk

idea about key images
W,

You and I corresponded a while ago about crypto images (and alien under ice wombats in Greenland). An artistically impaired mind works slowly indeed, from present evidence, but I've had an idea about public private (asymmetric) key represtentations as contrasted with symmetric key representations. One that, futhermore, does not require high resolution nor color, and which can probably be used in small images as well as larger ones. Can I interest you? ww 01:35, 14 May 2006 (UTC)


 * W, Glad to hear from you, and that you're willing to consider the wombats again before the Greenland ice melts. I keep telling myself over and over again, "Dubya knows what's going on and he's assured me there's no such thing as global warming, there's no such thing as global warming, ... and if I just tap these shoes together, we'll all go back to Kansas..." If you say it often enough, you can get to this sort of trance state in which your worries recede like the tide, and oh blissss... So, buying a house (at more or less the top of the market?), and working on a kid, and ... You'll not be sleeping for some years to come, you know; the little rug rats cry and cry and fall down and get into trouble and ... I'm impressed, nonetheless. On another subject altogether, there was an article about RAH's house at 1776 Mesa in one of the popular mechanic type magazines back about 50 years or so. It's been scanned and is on one of the RAH fan sites. Interesting to see just how he went about doing it; clever man, and inventive ideas, I think.
 * Um, well... Back to mundane work. The chief idea I had was with regard to public and private keys. A private key should be a kind of ghost key (an outline (w/ dashed or dotted outline?) while the public key can be an actually visible one. If bigger than the symmetric keys in a coordinated series of images, they can convey the increased sizes of such keys as well.
 * On the random generator business, there is a general sort of pseudo random number generator which has become sort of common, if not precisely standard. At least the Intel chipset RNG and the VIA CPU RNG have more or less the same kind of trickery. It's basically a gating business, where a thermal noise source is used aa the control for one or two (or even three in the case of the Via RNG) square wave oscillators. This raises the possibility of an image of a gate tended by an unreliable sort (drinking as a metaphor for thermal randomness?) with regularly spaced sheep passing through it to be counted on the other side.
 * Further conditioning of these random numbers, in practice, is settling down to a combining business of several different and all more or less random sources into a single stream. Each is XORed together after each running through a whitening/bias removal step (think sheep dip, eh? Since it's usually the von Neumann technique, I suppose they can be urbane Hungarian sheep), and the result preserves any randomness (in the information theoretic sense used in crypto) present in any of the sources. This technique allows use of not_so_hot random sources, always hard to arrange for, you know, and even allows for the Adversary to corrupt one (or even more) of the sources before the quality of hte generator itself is lost. For this I had in mind the sequence from Fantasia in which lots of little broom sticks independently deliver water in parallel. Or something like that. Fortuna is a typical design of this type and all seem to be based on some work by Santha and Varizani (see the PRNG article for the reference). How to refelct the increasing randomness as all this goes on might be done by making the tromping numbers dimmer and more indistinct as they pass through each stage.
 * But this is too much, I think. Let's leave the digital signature image problem for a later time and more of your artistic ambition. For the moment, you've got a lot on your plate what with kids and houses and ... have you gotten a new pet as well? Best wishes... 67.86.175.54 09:16, 9 July 2006 (UTC) ackggh. logged out again, ww here

Epicyclic gear ratios.png
Hi Wapcaplet. Your diagram Image:Epicyclic gear ratios.png has been nominated for delisting from Featured pictures. Not for anything to do with the diagram, but simply because it is too small for current standards. Do you still have the source, and could you possibly upload either (1) a larger version, or (2) a .svg version? SVG is of course preferred nowadays, and I am certain that it would save the image from delisting. Many thanks, ~ Veledan • Talk 17:29, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

I like your images!
I am very impressed with your illustrations. --Midnightcomm 02:43, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

Please consider revising the colors you use, otherwise WONDERFUL illustrations!
In the diagram M209_guide_arm_springs.png I am wholly unable to tell which items are red and which are green, which is vital to the meaning of the image. I am severely red-green colorblind. From various tests taken over the years I believe I am about as r/g colorblind as possible from the normal causes. This often leads to trouble interpretting images. For example, Scientific American is just rotten about this in general, and I'm afraid this example of yours is also in the range I simply can't percieve. This is too bad because based on the small sample I've seen your illustrations are truly brilliant and the result of significant effort.

In fact, I actually noticed this only because I was looking at examples of your illustrations, and doing so simply because I found the first ones I noticed (first the cat at "dithering" and then the same cat at "half tone") to be so clear and useful.

I'm not sure how you can best avoid this problem, and would like to point out that there are a variety of forms of colorblindness. I noticed GIMP allows the user to add filtering to the display to help colorblind users, as well as for other purposes (I believe it was GIMP - might have been another program and as I am curring in mid-reinstall of linux I can't check), though I don't know the details nor whether it would help. Perhaps using some form of marking other than color would be best. For example, you could add dots of varying density or other "texture" type markings (think of the paint and drawing programs in early macs, where you could choose different greys - really different amounts of dots - or various cross-hatchings, bricks, scales, etc.). These would be useful to anyone able to see the image in general, I suspect.

In any case, thank you for your great contributions, and please recognise I would not have bothered to ask for these changes had I not found your work quite valuable in the first place.

Is there some place I can post a similar request for illustration creators in general? I'm sure there is, considering wikipedia (though again, considering wikipedia, no telling how many would read it!) but am not sure where to try. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thank you!

--Fitzhugh 02:41, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

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SVG request
I was about to redraw it (in SVG), when I looked at the source image for Image:Key-crypto-sideways.png, Image:Cryptography clipart1.png which I noticed says it was created in Inkscape. I would therefore request that you upload the SVG instead as they are preferred over rasters especially when SVG was the original format (all that if you still have the original, that is). Thanks - Рэд хот (t • c • e) 21:53, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Yeah. I can see the images in the files have lots of potential use but I don't really see any for the files itself. I've now extracted the key used in Image:Key-crypto-sideways.png and saved it as a seperate SVG to replace the PNG. But maybe you could upload the two Crypto clipart files to Commons. People might find more use for them there (to use as a source file). - Рэд хот (t • c • e) 11:46, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

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Graphics Lab
I saw your name listed on Wikiproject Illustration or  the list of graphic artists, and I thought I'd let you know that a Graphics Lab has been created on EN. Based on the highly successful French and German graphics labs, it seeks to better organise and coordinate our graphic design and photo-editing efforts. Up until now, there has been no common space on EN where users could ask for maps, charts and other SVG files to be created. What's more, the Graphics Lab has discussion boards, tips, tools and links; in sum, a good common workspace. Come help us out! The infrastucture is already in place, and now we need participants. :) -- Zantastik  talk  00:43, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

Enigma stepping
Hi Wapcaplet, check out the last enigma discussion, maybe we need some blender expertise...regards, Dirk 19:22, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

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Image request: Risk (game)
I was wondering if you would be interested in illustrating the game board map for the Risk article (it would be used as a substitution for the territory chart that is currently "adorning" the page). Your artwork is pretty impressive from what I've seen. If this is someting you would be interested in working on please let me know. Conversely, if this is something you wouldn't want to work on please let me know as well. Thanks, b_cubed 05:19, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

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WikiProject:Automobile Construction
I was interested in including a post in this Wikiproject on advanced vehicle design for energy efficiency. I recently did a post (my first) on the UofM Solar Car and was thinking to include a related post on vehicle design, but there is no "heading" in the project for system design (just components). Same goes for hybrid and electric vehicle design (unless I missed something which could be since I'm a Newby to Wikipedia). Let me know what you think. FN 22:31, 7 January 2007 (UTC)fnazeeri

Brisco
I saw your (very old) comment on the Adventures of Brisco County Jr. page. I don't know if you've looked there lately, but the show has been out on DVD for a few months now (and it's about time!). Franzeska 17:21, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

Image:Pythagorean.svg


I think this image make more sense if the hypotenuse's square was colored red, as opposed to one of the sides. Meekohi 23:18, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

Image:Engine movingparts.jpg
Hi Wapcaplet, I would like to create a special rendering for Wikipedia using this engine model. I was wondering whether you could send me the scene file so that I can adapt it. Please contact me if you are willing to do this. Thanks! --Phrood 20:19, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

moving engine parts & block
Hello, I am working on a test case and possible demo for a new visualization package and was wondering if I could have a copy of the blender files for the moving engine parts and the block. I would not redistribute any portion of those files without your permission. Just let me know. Thanks, Brian brianpoteat@hotmail.com

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US Map images
Hi there, you were involved back in 2003 in the creation of 1000+ images of county locations in US States in PNG format. Of all these have since been uploaded to the Wikimedia Commons in SVG format and so with the help of User:The Anome I have listed all of the Wikipedia versions and and put them up as images for deletion. As all the images are now superseded orphans this seemed like the sensible thing to do. If you disagree please make a comment on the deletion discussion page at Images and media for deletion/2007 June 9. Best wishes. Madmedea 17:17, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

Diagram of the heart - valves improved
Hi, I always liked your picture of the heart. There is just one point that always bothered me: the thick aortic and pulmonary valves.

So now I learned to use inkscape, edited the picture and here you are:. Please note the delicate semilunar valves. I made one additional change. The anterior mitral valve leaflet inserts below the aortic valve.

I hope you like it. Ungebeten

images for t-shirt
User:Warcaplet, do you can make images for t-shirts for my wiki. http://es-enciclopediadg.newsit.es/.

--Diegogrez 21:35, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

Possibly unfree Image:LEGO minifigs.jpg
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I've adapted your map
Hello, I have adapted your map of the US with state names, removing the names and putting in the state capitals. Am I allowed to do this? Do you mind that I have used your map as the base image? If that's OK with you I will now go about uploading it to Wikipedia. Blueturtle01 18:47, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

Albigensian Crusade
I'm contacting you out of courtesy as you have contributed to the page and may wish to supply your own citations. If you feel this doesn't matter to you, please ignore it. This page was rated as a Good Article, but has been downgraded because nobody did the donkeywork of listing the attributions to the various statements provided, which is after all a fairly serious dereliction of duty in what's suppoed to be a historical record. Having discussed the withdrawal of GA with LuciferMorgan, I give notice that I am sitting down with the three classic original source texts (Puylaurens, Vaux-de-Cernay and de Tudèle - the last in the Livre de Poche edition as the Martin-Chabot is long out of print) to add the missing inline citations to this page. I do not intend at this point to make any textual alterations, but if comments are made which are NOT justified, be prepared to state your sources now. Jel 21:38, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

Another request for your engine blender source.
Hi, I'm working on a research project that is trying to construct a dynamics model for the crankshaft and piston components of an internal combustion engine. To do this, I'll need to annotate a blender model with masses, friction coefficients, and so on. At first I spent some time working on my own model, but then decided to look for existing models; I've come to the conclusion that your models are nonpareil. Would you be willing to send me the source blender file? I shall happily accept any conditions on redistribution of the sources you desire. My email: dashshell@yahoo.com —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dshell (talk • contribs) 09:14, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

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Image:Milgram Experiment v2.png
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You are popular
Wapcaplet, it is an honour to get in touch with you because your user page is the most visited on wikipedia. I asked a fellow contributor and he gave me this list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Henrik#Most_visited_User_page You must feel great that so many people love your pictures that they love seeing your page. When i first saw it i was like um, theres not much special about this and then i wondered what all the fuss was about. Also its not as if your a heavy editor on wikipedia so people would want to get in touch with you all the time.

On this occassion i would be referring to the Clown: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Can%27t_sleep%2C_clown_will_eat_me Im sure you can understand why everyone would be wanting to look at his page. Thanks, i just wanted to drop by, there are so many interesting facts about wiki that i want to know about and your one of them Roadrunnerz45 (talk) 13:44, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

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WP Computing
Greetings. You are receiving this note as you are a member of this WikiProject. Currently there is not much of activity in the project and I am hoping to revive the project with your help. I have made a few changes to the project page Diff. You are welcome to make suggestions of improvement / changes in the design. I have also make a proposal to AutoTagg articles with WikiProject Computing for the descendant wikiprojects articles also. Please express your opinion here --  TinuCherian  (Wanna Talk?) - 13:00, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Portal:Computer generated imagery
...exists. Please help to improve this Portal - the scope is anything that is generated on computer without a sensor. The Topics section is the only part at first draft. If you can help with anything - collecting images for the "More pictures" gallery, good articles, heck, even the intro needs a rewrite or three, please tuck in. See you there. Dhatfield (talk) 21:30, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

Thank you.
I'm reading and learning about my recent diagnosis of Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome, and featured in that article is. I wanted to thank you for the time you clearly spent working on this image and its excellent quality. I really commend you on your fantastic image. Thank you. 70.91.178.185 (talk) 16:44, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

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FP delist
Hello. Just so you know, two of your images are up for FP delisting (see nom). Although you did a great job on both images, I feel that the new vector images should replace them. Regards. -- p b r ok s 1 3 talk? 07:18, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

Great blender models
Hi, I really like your blender drawings on mechanical parts. I am just starting out with Blender and working through a Wikibooks tutorial. I hope I will model like you one day! :o) Fede.Campana (talk) 22:26, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

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