Wikipedia:Valued picture candidates/EyeFixationsReading.gif

Visual acuity at and beyond fixation point

 * Reason:This diagram provides a demonstration of the fact that your eyes must move rapidly during reading since you can only read a word or two at each eye stop. The upper line allows a reader try it out for him/herself, and the lower line is a good representation of the loss of acuity over distance.

I came across this image about a month ago, and upon seeing that there is such a thing as valued images, I remembered this picture. I cannot think of another image I have encountered on Wikipedia that contributes as much to its article as this one does to eye movement in language reading. I thought of nominating that article as a GA, but then realized that the article could use a bit of work; its this picture that makes the article seem so good.
 * Articles this image appears in:Eye movement in language reading, Reading (process)
 * Creator:Hans-Werner34


 * Support as nominator --TachyonJack (talk) 15:48, 4 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Support . The encyclopedic value is considerably good. - Damërung  ...ÏìíÏ..._ ΞΞΞ_         .   --  22:54, 4 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Conditional support I'd like to see a vector version, one without having the words obscured by the diagram.  Zoo Fari  22:56, 4 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment I can see the EV of this diagram in printed form. However, there are a wide variety of different pixel pitches and viewing distances present. There really isn't any information about the dot pitch or anything required for accurate viewing. Noodle snacks (talk) 23:37, 4 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Support, encyclopedically valuable. -- can  dle &bull; wicke  21:51, 6 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Support Spiral5800 (talk) 08:08, 7 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Support Good EV, and furthermore, both mentally and visually interesting.    Sophus Bie  (talk) 10:38, 7 June 2009 (UTC)

-- wadester 16  16:43, 13 June 2009 (UTC)