File talk:Flag of the Philippines.svg

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About the version dated September 18,2021

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@Vizorsols: , You uploaded two versions of File:Flag of the Philippines.svg on September 21/2021. I had a look at the second version which has a timestamp of 15:30, September 18, 2021 in my time zone.

  1. The sun is not symmetric.
  2. The position of the stars does not match any of the construction sheets.

Just so you don't claim that I am talking rubbish, please open your file in Inkscape and do the following:

  1. Zoom in to show the tips of the three rays at the top of the star (one fat ray & two thin rays). Drag a guideline down to the tip of the left thin ray. The guideline should pass through the tip of the ray on the right, but it does not.
  2. Click on the ruler icon. At the top of the window set precision to 3 and scale to 15.000%. Measure the length of the flag; 180.000; good. Measure the width; 90.000; good. Now measure the distance from the right most tip on the right most star to the nearby apex of the white triangle. It measures 8.942. According to the construction sheet it should be 9.000.

These errors are certainly not visible to the naked eye at normal magnification levels, but they do indicate you have probably done too much rounding with your numbers. Some of your coordinates are rounded to 10 decimal points, others are rounded to only 1 or 2.
Also, I know many people like to remove indentation to reduce file size. Some people like to remove line feed characters too. I make a point of including line feed characters and indentation in all my SVG files; I always like to encourage everybody to to do the same.
I have replaced the file with what I believe to be a much more accurate representation of the flag. I also whipped up a new construction sheet. File:Flag of the Philippines (construction sheet).svg.MapGrid (talk) 23:15, 23 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@MapGrid: Good catch; I'll take your suggestions into mind and be more careful next time. I appreciate the feedback. --Vizorsols (talk) 19:47, 29 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]