Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Birefringent Water Ice 5.jpg

File:Birefringent Water Ice 5.jpg, not featured

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Featured picture candidates/File:Birefringent Water Ice 5.jpg Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Birefringent Water Ice 5.jpg

• Category: Commons:Featured_pictures/Natural_phenomena
•  Info A thin layer of ice placed between polarizing filters, showing off its birefringence. The uploader has been playing with photography set-ups conducive to taking these images, and released one of them on Commons during the Wiki Science Competition. It is below the typical resolution of FPC, but as I understand it that's not an absolute rule when the circumstances of the photograph are non-standard. To me, this is spectacular enough that it's worth considering. Someone else can probably do a better job of explaining the science behind it. Created and uploaded by Tom Wagner, nominated by Rhododendrites. — Rhododendrites ^talk |  02:42, 31 January 2018 (UTC)
•  Support — Rhododendrites ^talk |  02:42, 31 January 2018 (UTC)
•  Question What's going on at the upper right? There's a serious loss of sharpness there. Daniel Case (talk) 04:42, 31 January 2018 (UTC)
•  Comment - This is a jpeg. I don't think there are exceptions to the 2 MP rule that are jpeg files. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 04:53, 31 January 2018 (UTC)

• @Ikan Kekek: The only criterion I see is "Images (with the exception of animations, videos, and SVGs) of lower resolution than 2 million pixels (pixels, not bytes) are typically rejected unless there are strong mitigating reasons." So the 2mp rule simply doesn't apply to animations, videos, and SVGs, and there needs to be strong mitigating reasons otherwise (i.e. exceptions). — Rhododendrites ^talk |  05:38, 31 January 2018 (UTC)

•  Oppose It is certainly beautiful to look at but the image quality is not as good as existing FPs of birefringence, taken with the same technique, such as File:Photoelasticity - TDK Head Cleaner - Black background.jpg. dllu (t,c) 05:56, 31 January 2018 (UTC)
•  I withdraw my nomination ok, maybe FP not quite right for this one. maybe we get a higher resolution image from the uploader sometime :) — Rhododendrites ^talk |  06:02, 31 January 2018 (UTC)

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Result: 1 support, 1 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /PumpkinSky talk 18:16, 31 January 2018 (UTC)