Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Black hole lensing

Black hole lensing
Voting period ends on 23 Nov 2010 at 21:06:12 (UTC)
 * Reason:good EV; informative about gravitational lensing and black holes; decent quality for an animation
 * Articles in which this image appears:Black hole, Gravitational lens
 * FP category for this image:Featured pictures/Space/Astronomy
 * Creator:Urbane Legend


 * Support as nominator --Nergaal (talk) 21:06, 14 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment Perhaps this would be better if the background object was something other than a line (effectively). As is I couldn't tell if the lens flips things on an axis or not for example. Noodle snacks (talk) 06:44, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
 * I also think this could be better if it was rendered in (say) 1080p and uploaded as video, rather than animated gif. Noodle snacks (talk) 06:45, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
 * I also think this would be better as a video, the animated gif is just way to small, so I Oppose on size grounds. The first is too small the second forces the reader to download a 12 meg file to view the animation, which is prohibitive for many of the readership, not everyone has broadband. Plus my fairly new laptop visibly lags for several seconds to render that image, animated gifs are not meant to replace video codecs. — raeky  t  16:33, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Oppose due to format issues as per above. The 12 mb "very large size" is large only in filesize, whilst the image resolution is extremely low. Furthermore, due to the nature of GIF images having a small colour palette, there is a significant and annoying amount of dithering. This should be in a true video format.Purpy Pupple (talk) 21:05, 15 November 2010 (UTC)

--Makeemlighter (talk) 04:18, 24 November 2010 (UTC)