User talk:Wapcaplet/Archive 3

Nice illustrations

Your illustrations are simple and functional, yet pleasant to the watch. Keep up the good work.

Table tweaking request

Hi, I see that you're good with images and tables and would like to ask if you have any suggestions on improving the image/caption layout at the Warsaw Uprising page. I would be good to be able to apply one caption to two images in a way that looks 'right'. If not, perhaps you know where such a request could be posted? Thanks, Richard Taylor 09:37, 6 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Plea for remembering other Wikipedias

Congrats on your wonderful illustrations for Wikipedia. But please don't forget that other language Wikipedias are yearning for such brilliant pictures. It would help a lot if you could also release versions without any text or better still mark them with letters and numbers only. Thank you in advance for you kind help. Kpjas ☤ 17:20, 11 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Just came across this, and was a bit puzzled; in my experience, Wapcaplet already expends effort to make his images suitable for several languages, e.g., the most-likely-to-be-featured Image:Enigma_rotor_exploded_view.png was numbered with this purpose in mind. He's also asked advice on how to represent plaintext in a language-neutral way, something that wouldn't even have occurred to me. — Matt 16:42, 13 Aug 2004 (UTC)

John Kerry

I read your suppositions about John Kerry. Your logic is nice, but your premises are misinformed. The undisputed facts about "Christmas in Cambodia" are clear. Read my "Vote 2004" links here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rex071404 for a fuller understanding.

Rex071404 05:03, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Re: Kerry / Cambodia

If you begin from this false premise "the Mekong Delta can be considered part of Cambodia", there is no way to look at the issue correctly.

Please read this link [1] and look at the map (click on it for larger view)

If you dialog with me until we clear this up, I can answer your question(s). If not, we are wasting our time. Rex071404 00:06, 18 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Yes, or no have you come to a conclusion about what you belive on this: ""the Mekong Delta can be considered part of Cambodia". If you won't accept the simple geographic fact that this statement is false (extremely false) then we have nothing to converse about.

May your decision about what you believe about this. If and only if you accept the truth that the Mekong Delta IS NOT located in Cambodia, we can continue conversing. If not, I am sorry but I will not try to convince you.

1. PBS [2]
2. McLeod - Ibiblio [3]
3. Vietnamtourism.com [4]
4. Thegreatoutdoors.com.au [5]
5. Rice crop info [6]
6. Maps [7]
7. Farming [8]

Rex071404 06:14, 18 Aug 2004 (UTC)

To better understand the reason why "Christmas in Cambodia" matters, read this [9] Rex071404 04:45, 21 Aug 2004 (UTC)

M-209

Good work so far with the M-209, both the model and the article! Another picture I came across recently: [10] — I'm afraid I'm still very much in the dark when it comes to the mechanical operation of the machine (though I still haven't yet got round to the library to look through a couple of books that I know discuss the machine!). — Matt 10:10, 21 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Naming convention for television articles

Hi. Seeing as you were once previously interested in a naming convention, I'd like to invite you to vote on adoption of Wikipedia:Naming conventions (television). Voting is taking place on the Talk page and ends on Sep 13 2004. -- Netoholic 23:22, 22 Aug 2004 (UTC)

More M-209

Enjoyed the latest additions to M-209 (had a moment of "aah, I see" after looking at them — I just can't understand text descriptions of mechanical objects!). 1) Not sure about the typewheel and how it differs in encryption and decryption; the pin and lug stuff does "Beaufort" encryption, which is, I'm sure you know, self-reciprocal, but I'm not sure how the extra added constant gets deducted in decryption. If you're still stuck, you might be able to find someone on sci.crypt who actually owns a machine... 2) An animation would be, well, awesome. 3) Re DES diagrams; how can I easily convert diagrams from true colour to indexed? (And how can I make them transparent?) I'm a bit clueless with graphics, I'm afraid. — Matt 03:13, 25 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Image copyright

Hi, Wapcaplet, thanks very much for your input on the Village Pump re my worries about a photo of Cornelis Vreeswijk (see the gaping void there to the right of the TOC?). Btw, I've finally understood why it's been so hard to get a straight answer: it's because the policy about disallowing limited permission is extremely new. It came straight from Jimbo just a few days ago. Policy used to be merely that limited permission was pressingly discouraged. Anyway, I really liked your suggestion about a sketch. Do you happen to know if there's some more specific policy document Talk page where you could make the suggestion again, if you'd care to? It would be great to get some discussion going about, for instance, creating a "requested sketches" page. But meanwhile, are you by any chance a talented sketch-artist yourself, nudge, nudge? May I show you some Cornelis photos? :-) Bishonen 09:58, 28 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Image copyright again

Great, thanks very much, and for your post on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Illustration. I don't know my way around Wikipedia very well yet, and I didn't know about it, still less that it was your project. Meanwhile, if you're interested (but I absolutely don't mean to push you, if you'd rather let someone else do it), here are links to three Cornelis photos [11], [12], [13] at different ages. (He's still only 41 in the third and last, but marked by illness.) Frankly, I found even fewer good pics than I'd expected. Cornelis had a lot of charisma, and I remember some LP sleeve photos where that quality came across, but unfortunately those don't seem to be on the web. Anyway, thanks again for taking an interest in my problem. --Bishonen 21:04, 29 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Penrose triangle

I've decided to release many of my Wikipedia diagrams into the public domain, but since you contributed to Image:Penrose_triangle.png I thought I should get your assent on that one before doing so. If you do assent, could you note this on the image page? Thanks. Derrick Coetzee 17:39, 30 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thanks for helping me with the Calvin and Hobbes image manipulation! [[User:Neutrality|Neutrality (talk)]] 02:50, 1 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Ideas for images

Hi, Wapcaplet. On your User page you ask for suggestions for new images. Well, having seen your excellent work in the Enigma machine article, there are a couple of diagrams I think we need. These are to illustrate the TWTA and LVDT articles. If you are interested, I could upload a hand-drawn sketch for each one, and you could turn them into grown-up drawings. Both drawings would include helical coils, ideally viewed in 3D, which is why I haven't attempted them. If you are too busy to do this, perhaps you could recommend a good 3D drawing package that I could learn to use (ideally a free one). Regards, --Heron 08:50, 2 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Milgram

Hi,

Milgram experiment is one of the featured articles currently missing a picture. Here's a copyrighted German illustration that could be used as a starting point. What it basically shows is:

• a "student" ("Schüler" in the chart) behind a wall, connected to wires going into the wall,
• a "test person" ("Versuchsperson") sitting in front of a box with switches to administer electrical shocks through the wires, connected to the student
• a "researcher" ("Versuchsleiter") sitting away from the test person in front of a device with meters on it to "control" the electrical current

Would this be something you'd be interested in drawing? I've given it a try but I don't have a good enough clipart library for this kind of stuff.--Eloquence*

Wow, that was fast! Excellent work, as always. And an SVG version, too. Perfect!--Eloquence*

Model of Buildings in Beslan

Let me start by saying just how impressed I am and have been with your models. They are pretty much amazing. I mess around a bit in Photoshop making images, but very definitely intend to learn Blender in the future having seen your work.

I was thinking you might be able to make a model of the buildings in which the recent hostage crisis recently took place in the vein of these BBC images [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] I'm sure yours would look better, have more details, better rendering etc., but thought a model like this might help the article a lot.

Anyway, either way, keep up the good work. -- Prisonblues 21:38, 4 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Stepper motor

Just saw your new diagrams for the stepper motor, great work as usual. Just one point is that without the captions it does seem like the motor is rotating 90° each time - what with the arrow moving around. Perhaps you could add some markings or colouring to the rotor so its more obvious that its only a slight movement taking place each time. ed g2s • talk 12:08, 7 Sep 2004 (UTC)

You're porbably bored of redrawing it now - but perhaps the angle measurements should be cumulative (3.6, 6.2, 9.8) as at the moment there is a label of 3.6 pointing to a line at an angle - which in each image doesn't make sense. If the label was indicating the angle relative to the vertical, it might be more consistent. Keep up the good work. ed g2s • talk 01:40, 14 Sep 2004 (UTC)

I was expecting a pair of lines/pie wedge the first time - definately a good idea. I wouldn't worry about making the images stand up on their own - its only ever going to work as a sequence. As for the slices they could be coloured depending on how recently the were the moved, i.e. a dark overlay that fades over time - so the first image would have a 3.6° dark slice, the last image would have 4 slices, the most rotated one being as dark as the first one, and the others fading back to the colour of the rotor. ed g2s • talk 02:30, 14 Sep 2004 (UTC)

New M-209 photos

Hey, these are really nice! Good stuff, and of course, thanks to Mr Gwyn. It really is a funky machine. You mentioned several dozen photos; are the others anywhere that I could have a look at? I think M-209 is not that far off from Featured Article quality at this point. — Matt 22:55, 7 Sep 2004 (UTC)

LQ

I added you on my Linux Questions Buddy list -- I'm assuming that your Username is WapCaplet on there--otherwise I just added a total stranger. — Ilγαηερ (Tαlκ) 21:43, 8 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for the image fix on the barnstar. [[User:Neutrality|Neutrality (talk)]] 01:58, 12 Sep 2004 (UTC)

M-209 photos & public key diagrams

Thanks for sending me the M-209 photos!

One of my current "To Do"s is to revamp public key cryptography, which could do with being better. (Ed Felten mentioned it on a "review" of some Wikipedia articles). Anyway, while Googling, I came across some excellent notes [19], including some of the best crypto illustration ideas (IMO) I've seen yet, which might be useful for the "Crypto Clip Art" library. One was to split a public key and private key into two pieces of a padlock; different public/private key pairs were split into different shapes. They even showed how to use the "private" piece in a digital signature application, reusing it as a stamp/watermark; I think this works quite well. Another idea I liked was padlocking a (translucent) box with documents inside, for the "one-way"ness of encryption. Might similar ideas work well for Wikipedia? I guess we probably should go with less cluttered and more language-neutral diagrams? — Matt 00:29, 13 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Map of the US

Do you still have the SVG you used to create Image:Map_of_USA_showing_state_names.png? I want to re-do some of the US maps - specifically the election maps (which are JPEGs!). Thanks ed g2s • talk 11:33, 20 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Ta. ed g2s • talk 23:59, 23 Sep 2004 (UTC)

I was just colouring in this map and I noticed that a small part of Virginia is grouped as Maryland. Perhaps you could fix this, as my SVG skills are all but non-existant? ed g2s • talk 15:01, 5 Nov 2004 (UTC)

It has been pointed out that Massachusetts is misspelled Massachussetts on Image:Map_of_USA_showing_state_names.png. If you still have the original file, it would be a good correction to make. --Ben Brockert 00:13, Dec 4, 2004 (UTC)

Oh ah. Didn't even see the link to the original file, sorry. I don't have anything that could modify it anyway. Thanks for fixing it. --Ben Brockert 01:31, Dec 4, 2004 (UTC)

Thanks!

The new maps on U.S. state are GREAT! Good work! jengod 22:07, Sep 24, 2004 (UTC)

I never give these out, but your 3d images have set the bar for quality diagrams on WP, and the know web universe - thus I consider it a crime that you had not yet received one. And since I'm here, I'd also like to put in an image request for Stirling engine. ;) -SV 20:31, 27 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Just-in-time compilation

I deleted and moved the article as per your RFD listing. Sysop privileges are fun! Since it didn't actually need to be voted on, and is now done, I'm going to remove the listing from RFD. Just wanted to let you know. Bearcat 04:01, 4 Oct 2004 (UTC)

RfD formatting

Please don't remove the extra CR's between entries - they are there deliberately, to keep the entries from all running together. Thanks! Noel 13:02, 4 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Ngari pic

Hi! Thanks for uploading the JPG version of Image:Ngari.jpg. I notice it currently doesn't have an image copyright tag. Could you add one to let us know its copyright status? (You can use {{gfdl}} if you release it under the GFDL, or {{fairuse}} if you claim fair use, etc.) Thanks so much, – Quadell ^{(talk) (help)}[[]] 21:07, Oct 7, 2004 (UTC)

Blender

Your fantastic diagrams have inspired me to download Blender and give it a go. My God what a learning curve! I suspect it'll be months before I can produce anything usable :-( Theresa Knott (Not the skater) 10:44, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Forgive me for butting in, but I'd just like to mention that I too have been teaching myself Blender, after being inspired by Wapcaplet's excellent creations. Yes, it is a huge learning curve, and I fell off once and had to start again, but it's worth it. I now reckon I've mastered about 20% of it, after about four weeks of experimenting. By the way, don't waste time looking for an undo button - there isn't one (well, not a global one). Good luck! --Heron 13:01, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC)

It's true that it's difficult to get going; I think it all comes down to keeping one hand on the mouse, and one on the keyboard. I first tried Blender in fits and starts several years ago, but couldn't get past that initial roadblock, looking at the interface and going "huh?" I finally had to say to myself "Self, this program has real potential. You need to sit down and learn how to use it." It has definitely been worth it.

The more I have used Blender, though, the more I've released I don't know nothin. 20%, Heron? Man, I've been using it for almost 4 years, and I barely feel like I know 20%. I haven't touched the python scripting capabilities; I've only utilized the most rudimentary aspects of materials and textures; I've only scratched the surface of animation, IPO curves, and skeletons, and haven't used inverse kinematics at all--not to mention the game module. I've gotten pretty darn good at mesh modeling, but that's about the extent of it. I honestly do not know what half the buttons do. So if you have mastered 20% of it, then I am impressed :-) -- Wapcaplet 16:57, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC)

My achievement scale must be more optimistic than yours, Wap. I think I know what about 20% of the buttons do. As for the other stuff, I too have only scratched the surface, and I would only call myself "adequate" at mesh modelling. I managed to build a bendy pipe and fly through it, but I'm not sure how I got the camera to point in the right direction. And I don't know how many keyboard shortcuts there are, but I'm sure I don't know 20% of them. --Heron 15:45, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Well I do have every intention of carrying on with it. I'm glad that you two found it difficult to learn too. Makes me feel less stupid. Theresa Knott (Not the skater) 23:57, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Thank you

Just wanted to thank you for dropping by my User page and dealing with some of the other comments left there. - Scooter 07:47, 31 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Thanks. Yes, I've noticed that the user tends to be, um, dogmatic in hir approach to usage and spelling correction...particularly in the contravention of accepted reference texts. - Scooter 06:33, 1 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the continent maps

I saw them in de: and started to use them in zh-min-nan: (here). Very nice. A-giau 06:20, 5 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Oh, a belated BTW: I notice de:Bild:Antarktis-Pos.png claims PD for an image altered from a CIA source by you. I just read your multi-license statement, so there appears to be a contradiction there. A-giau 22:06, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Adminship

I have nominated you for adminship. Please accept the nomination at WP:RFA. uc 19:36, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Image:Epicyclic gear ratios.png

Do you have a larger version of this as it is a featured picture and as such should be setting a good example? ed g2s • talk 14:16, 13 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Congratulations, Eric!

Congratulations! It's my pleasure to let you know that, consensus being reached, you are now an administrator. You should read the relevant policies and other pages linked to from the administrators' reading list before carrying out tasks like deletion, protection, banning users, and editing protected pages such as the Main Page. Most of what you do is easily reversible by other sysops, apart from page history merges and image deletion, so please be especially careful with those. You might find the new administrators' how-to guide helpful. Cheers! - Cecropia | explains it all ® 18:07, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Congratulations from me too! — Matt 19:06, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)

County Images

There have been references to the U.S. County maps which were based on the public domain maps (courtesy of The General Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin), modified to show counties. In these references, it has been suggested that you may have created all or some of them. The reason I ask is because they have been released under the GFDL and I was wondering if we could dual-license them into the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License (or public domain if preferred) (See: Wikipedia:Multi-licensing) so that the city articles can be available under other licenses (for instance, to share with WikiTravel). The U.S. city dot project has been using the county maps as a source, so they necessarily fall under the GFDL as it currently stands. I've also been asking people if they want to dual-license all of their Wikipedia edits. I don't know your feelings on licensing to something other than the GFDL, so I thought I'd ask. It is simple to add a template to your user page acknowledging your desire to multi-license. Just thought I'd ask to see if you'd be willing to do this. -- Ram-Man 04:05, Nov 18, 2004 (UTC)

By all means do some research! Actually the con of not being compatible with Wikipedia is not the same with images because only the articles are required to be under the GFDL. The images are not. I'm not sure why this is and I'm not sure what this means for you, but I thought I'd mention it. I think the main reason I am doing this is to allow sharing with WikiTravel and the like. I can't imagine that large number of derivative works will be created so that we will wish that they were only in the GFDL. As far as I know, what we have is great and the dot project people will finish with fully compatible images. I suppose it is conceivable that someone may take those pictures and modify them in some way that would make us jealous, but I don't know what way. The CC-by-sa and GFDL are very similar licenses. Visit the WikiTravel site for an explanation of why they use the CC-by-sa license instead of the GFDL. That should explain the differences between the two. -- Ram-Man 18:09, Nov 18, 2004 (UTC)

In the worst case, someone takes one of your blender scenes and modifies it. Now if it was modified and released then they could release it into the CC-by-sa and not the GFDL. In that case, Wikipedia could still use it under the CC-by-sa because it is a media file, not an article. Again, I don't know exactly why it works this way, but other licenses can be used with media files (I'm pretty sure anyway). In any case, I wasn't asking you to dual-license other media files (but if you did I wouldn't complain), just the ones you authored for the various U.S. geographical entities. A simple note on your user page to this effect would be good enough for now. If everyone in the city dot-project also would agree to use the CC-by-sa, then I would probably use a bot to automatically add the notice to each image page. One last question: Were you the original author of ALL those source county images retrived from the UofT? I was having trouble finding that out because I don't know where the original images you created are, as they were all uploaded by User:The Anomebot without citing the modifier, but I've read that User:Jdforrester may have helped you create some too, which does complicate things.

Although I wouldn't mind seeing large swaths of Wikipedia articles dual-licensed, right now I'm focusing on a more reasonable goal: those of the U.S. cities and counties, partially because of their usefulness to WikiTravel, but partly just because I'm not a huge fan of the GFDL because it isn't technically a free license in the sense that the GPL is. Hopefully the FSF will fix this, but for now the CC-by-sa is the free license I like. At approaching 5,000 edits, I'm sure you've made edits to the U.S. city/county articles, especially since you've helped create those images. It seems like you're nervous about dual-licensing all your edits, but what about just the city/county article edits? -- Ram-Man 19:11, Nov 18, 2004 (UTC)

Jdforrester has consented to release his images into CC-by-sa 1.0 and 2.0. I know you've licensed all your edits under that license, but what about the images? Will you also release those county images under that license? Technically speaking the template banner you added to your user page is really just for normal edits, not for media. So I just need you to release them, and then we'll be set. No one else made those county images, right? -- Ram-Man 01:33, Nov 22, 2004 (UTC)

I misinformed you about Jdforrester because I wasn't being careful. He has released his images under the CC-by (without sa) and was wondering if you'd do the same, so I thought i'd pass the request on. I'm still asking him if he will release them under the CC-by-sa as well (since that is more useful for sharing), and I *think* he'll be ok with that. That would multi-license it under the GFDL, CC-by and CC-by-sa if everyone consents. -- Ram-Man 01:35, Nov 23, 2004 (UTC)

Thanks! -- Ram-Man

Wapcaplet

Adrian? Adrian Wapcaplet? Are you still with Mousebat, Follicle, Goosecreature, Ampersand, Spong, Wapcaplet, Looseliver, Vendetta and Prang? --Brian0918 20:22, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Image copyright the third

What is the copyright status of Image:Blender_screenshot.png? Boffy b 11:19, 2004 Dec 7 (UTC)

Book cover

In line with the t-shirt design thing, how about a book cover that has the wikipedia logo that says something like, "Wikipedia: All the stuff in this book and ##### things it doesn't have"(replace ##### with appropriate number). Then the url. --Aqua 09:31, Dec 13, 2004 (UTC)

Yet still another image copyright

Hi! Thanks for uploading the following image:

• Image:Earth_tilt_sample.jpg

I notice it currently doesn't have an image copyright tag. Could you add one to let us know its copyright status?

You can use {{gfdl}} if you wish to release your own work under the GNU Free Documentation License, {{PD-self}} if you wish to release your own work to the public domain, {{fairuse}} if you claim fair use of someone else's work, and so on. Click here for a list of the various tags.

If you don't know what any of this means, just let me know at my talk page where you got the image from, and I'll tag it for you. (And if you know exactly what this means and are really tired of the constant reminders, please excuse me. They will stop once the tagging project is complete.) Thanks so much. Denni☯ 03:47, 2004 Dec 16 (UTC)

P.S. You can help tag other images at Wikipedia:Untagged_Images. Thanks again.

PPS - Thanks for all the great graphics you've uploaded in the past. Your work has contributed to Wikipedia immensely!

User Lysdexia

..Is ignoring calls to stop inserting [SIC] on everything he sees as per the RFC page you put up here [20] and has now begun doing the same on the talk page for Laser (not to mention he's now throwing a tantrum over my removal of his factually incorrect and nonsensical edits of that page) and he's doing the same on the very request for comment page about him [21]. sigh....--Deglr6328 01:10, 22 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Image:Edit this page full.png

Thanks for uploading Image:Edit this page full.png and Image:Edit this page small.png. I notice it currently doesn't have an image copyright tag. Could you add one to let us know its copyright status? (You can use {{gfdl}} if you release it under the GFDL, or {{fairuse}} if you claim fair use, etc.) Thanks, Mattingly23 04:12, 23 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Also: Image:One thru Nine Step by Step Orthographic Auxillary Projection2.png --Aqua 02:48, Jan 1, 2005 (UTC)

dial-style combination lock

Just thought that you might be interested in taking a look at this. It has good images and a good description on dial-style combination locks. Might be helpful if you ever get around to making a diagram on it. --Aqua 22:11, Jan 2, 2005 (UTC)

Another image

Theres' no copyright info on Image:StopEssoleaflet.jpg. – Quadell ^{(talk) (help)} 22:05, Jan 11, 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Image recreation requests

Greetings. I just started the Wikipedia:Image recreation requests project, and I thought you might be interested. Your help would be greatly appreciated. (I got your name from the list at Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Graphic Artists.) Best regards, – Quadell ^{(talk) (sleuth)} 03:13, Jan 30, 2005 (UTC)

Image question

Hi Eric,

I tried to send you this as an email but I had no luck.

I have been browsing Wikipedia to find a good map of the Nafta states and America as a whole.

I found the map at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Map_of_world_highlighting_South_America.png you took from the CIA World Factbook. Can you tell me where exactly you found it and whether there are more maps that are similar like this one?

Thanks in advance

Kind regards

--Wotan 10:34, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)

• Thanks for the reply. Your links really helped me... --Wotan 18:04, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC)

More image copyrights

I've asked User:J.J. about Image:Mad scientist caricature.png, which you created from Image:Madscientist.jpg. I've asked him about this; if he licences it under the GFDL, your claim of fair use would be valid, and your own version would subsequently come under the GFDL as well (I think). Thanks, Alphax ^τεχ 22:54, Mar 3, 2005 (UTC)

Thankyou! Alphax ^τεχ 09:41, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)

D-H illustration

Hi! Do you remember the Crypto-clip art you created a while ago? Well, I've an idea for illustrating Diffie-Hellman key exchange using a metaphor of locks (not my idea, but derived from this paper). Using your clip-art, I've hacked together a rough mockup here: Image:Dh-mockup.png.

The analog is that the padlocks have no keys. They are easy to lock, but hard to open. Alice and Bob cooperate together to produce a secret key, which in this metaphor is the two padlocks linked together. Even if Eve can monitor and copy what goes over the communications channel, she cannot reproduce the two padlocks linked together, because she would need to be able to open a padlock to do so.

I was wondering if you might be interested in transforming my hideous mockup into an actual illustration? ;-) — Matt Crypto 16:47, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Please upload your pictures into the Commons.Wikimedia!

hi, could you please upload your realy great pictures into the commons, so that we foreign language wikipedians can use them, too :D? I want to use your Image:Anamorphic lens illustration without stretching.jpg for something that is called de:Lichttonverfahren (i do not know what the right translation is, but i could be "light audio"). And I had allready uploaded your Image:Aspect ratios.png and I stick to your colours for the diffrent aspcet ratios for my pics about Cropping (image) and de:Safe Area (Bild) , thanks for your original!

Category:Images created with Blender ?

Hi! Thanks for the great pictures you have blendered. :) I was thinking, how about a category Category:Images created with Blender? Wikipedia has a fair amount of images created with Blender, many - if not most - by you, of course. That would make it easier to find other illustrations and it could be linked to from the Blender (program) article as an example of what one can do with Blender. :) What do you think? If you could also upload your images to the Wikimedia Commons, that would be great. It supports easy creation of image galleries. Maybe Wikipedia supports too... Not sure. Anyway, let me hear your thoughts. --ZeroOne 20:57, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Pic of the day

Hi Wapcaplet,

Just to let you know that your illustration Image:Epicyclic gear ratios.png is up for reuse as Pic of the Day on the 7th April. I've reused the same caption as last time, but you can re-edit it at Wikipedia:Picture of the day/April 7, 2005. -- Solipsist 11:28, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Multilicense

Hi Wapcaplet. I notice you multilicense all your PNG and JPG images with all the cc-by licenses. Would you be willing to license Image:Map of USA with state names.svg as {{cc-by-2.0}} or any other such cc license? I ask because for now, Commons:Image:United States 2004 election maps.png is technically a copyright violation, since it combines a GFDL image (Image:2004 US elections map.png, which was produced from your SVG file) with cc-by-2.0 images. Thanks, dbenbenn | talk 16:01, 24 May 2005 (UTC)

Pic of the day 2

Hi Eric,

Another one of you drawings, Image:Four stroke cycle start.png, is coming up for a reappearance as Pic of the Day on th 12th June. You can make changes and ammendments to the caption at Wikipedia:Picture of the day/June 12, 2005. -- Solipsist 20:25, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

M-209

Hi Eric,

Saw your article in Der Keilers about the M-209. Btw, nice pics on wiki! I added a link in wiki to a M-209 sim i wrote. Check it out! http://users.telenet.be/d.rijmenants/en/m209sim.htm All comments and feedback most welcome. Dirk 16:06, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Hi Eric,From what is saw you already made in blender, your sim will look great when he's finished! Drop me a note or mail when you have any questions or when its finished. btw, if you have Visual basic, you can check out my M-209 source code on PSC: [22]. If you don't have VB, you can alway download the zip and open modM209.bas with notepad. If you cut away the visual stuff the encryption code is rather simple ;-) regard, Dirk 16:06, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Disc Golf Pictures

I added a pair of disc golf pictures to the article's page. It's your call whether to keep the image request up to try and solicite better ones.--Daveswagon 09:53, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Automobile construction

I've marked Wikipedia:WikiProject Automobile construction as inactive, whilst poking about Category:WikiProject, but I'm undecided about whether to list it at WP:VFD. Does it still serve a use? Steve block talk 12:08, July 19, 2005 (UTC)

Pic of the day

Hi Eric,

Thought you might like to know that, one year one, your illustration Image:Enigma rotor exploded view.png is up for a reappearnce on Pic of the Day. I've reused the caption from last time, but you can make any edits at Wikipedia:Picture of the day/August 3, 2005. -- Solipsist 18:43, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

thank you & more suggestion?

hi. i would like to thank you again for your helpful criticism that you offered regarding the map i created of North Amer. languages. if you have time, would you mind considering again the map, seeing if i have implemented your suggestions in satisfactory way. also if you have anything further to offer i would be very appreciative. here is the link:

peace – ishwar  (speak) 21:32, 2005 August 17 (UTC)

Pyramids

Hey! I notice that you seem to have an interest (and knowledge) in and about the Great Pyramid of Giza. Some claims are being added there, and I doubt their scientific validity. If you could take a look at them, and at the talk page, I'd really appreciate it, since I only have a very general knowledge of the subject area. --Scimitar ^parley 15:32, 19 August 2005 (UTC)

Images

I've just looked up your résumé on your user page and its fantastic! We at Wikipedia:WikiProject Cricket need a few simple images drawn. Would you be willing to help out? =Nichalp «Talk»= 07:21, August 28, 2005 (UTC)

Vasco da Gama

An article that you've edited before (Vasco da Gama) is nominated for Article Improvement Drive. If you want go there and vote. Thanks. Gameiro 02:58, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

Can you illustrate a lever tumbler lock?

If you could, that would be great. Your other lock illustrations are really clear and informative. I know there aren't a lot of lever locks in the US, but they're very popular in some other parts of the world. Thanks!

I was just reading the articles on Pin_tumbler_lock and Disc_tumbler_lock and Tubular_pin_tumbler_lock, and found your illustrations to be very helpful. I too would like to see a diagram for Chubb_detector_lock and/or Lever_tumbler_lock. 194.200.237.219 12:26, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

Image Tagging Image:Ngari.jpg

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AIDS reappraisal

If your still watching this page, Grcampbell and I are having a discussion regarding updating the page. I'm proposing some major changes and I figured you might have some input.--Herda05 00:11, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

AIDS Dissent Wikicity

I've started a wikicity for dissidents. Go check it out at AIDS Dissent Wikicity. Let's get to work!! Revolver 08:37, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

Image:Engine movingparts.jpg

Hi just want to make sure that you DID use yafray to render that right? I am putting it on 3D computer graphics and just wanna make sure my description is right. --antilived ^{T | C} 05:26, 24 November 2005 (UTC)

Image Tagging Image:Pm nehru.jpg

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If the image also doesn't have a copyright tag then you must also add one. If you created/took the picture then you can use {{GFDL}} to release it under the GFDL. If you can claim fair use use {{Non-free fair use in|article name}} or {{fairuse}}. See Wikipedia:Image copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

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• Thanks for your note. Do you think it could possibly be covered by {{PD-India}}? If not, it will probably have to be deleted. Cheers --Pak21 15:45, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

Helicopters

Hello - any chance we could employ you and your beautiful 3D diagrams in our Helicopter section? There are two obvious candidates for diagrams in Anatomy of a helicopter and we'd love a picture in Helicopter flight controls - if you're not too busy! Thanks, Benet Allen 22:09, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

Image request for computing minimalism

Hey, I noticed one of your images was being used over at Computing minimalism; recently some criticism has surfaced on the talk page to the effect that while the fluxbox window manager is a good example, Mozilla was not.... the best possible choice of web browser. If I could prevail upon you to do a similar screenshot, but using Dillo, or links in a terminal or something, that'd be pretty awesome. --maru (talk) Contribs 03:37, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

Illustration suggestion: Gatling gun

Compliments on your beautiful illustrations! If you need ideas, may I suggest an illustration of a Gatling gun mechanism? It's one of those mechanism that are simple in execution but difficult to explain in words. Harald Hansen 18:17, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

Be Bold logo

i'm an italian user and i saw the images meta:Image:Edit this page intl.png and meta:Image:Be bold.png. the translation of «Edit this page» in italian is not «Pubblichi questa pagina» but it's «Modifica questa pagina». i hope that you have the original image and, if possible, change the italian translation. thank you for your attention and i'm sorry for my horrible english :-). --Valepert 21:20, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

Image tagging: Image:Binary clock.png

Why did you add {{WikimediaAllLicensing}} to Image:Binary clock.png? Please remove this tag and re-tag the image with a free license template. adnghiem501 01:38, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks! adnghiem501 01:45, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Image:Chess pieces

Hello Wapcaplet! I would like to use this Image (the Horse) for a Header of a Website. Would it be Okay for you if i just write "This Image is from the Wikimedia Commons Projekt. The Designer of the Image is Wapcaplet (link on your Wiki-Page)" once on the Site on a DisclaimerPage? And please excuse my bad english ;) -- 'guizza' 19.07, 22 February (CET)

Image:USA_CountiesSVG.zip

I'm chasing down oddball formatted files on Wikipedia. Is this still used/needed? I'd think that any use has been replaced by dotmaps. If it's not, then can we delete it? --Gmaxwell 05:35, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

Image copyright problem with Image:Risk cannon.jpeg

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