Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/3DBenchy

3DBenchy

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 3 Nov 2024 at 19:48:50 (UTC)

Reason: Has anyone ever tried a 3D model nomination here? I haven't seen one, and I figured 3DBenchy would be a worthy attempt. 3DBenchy is a calibration object designed to stress test 3D printers. It is open-source and (in certain circles) quite famous. If you prefer to grade it purely as an image, the largest 2D preview is well over the minimum pixel count and the underlying file is almost 11 MB.
Articles in which this image appears: 3DBenchy
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Other or
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Engineering and technology/Others
Creator: Daniel Norée & Paulo Kiefe (by Creative Tools Sweden AB)

Support as nominator – Moonreach (talk) 19:48, 24 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Comment – I think this is going to be a tough sell based on how poorly mediawiki renders previews of STL files, but if we were going to feature an STL file either this or File:Utah teapot (solid).stl would be good candidates. --Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 20:03, 24 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
A thought crossed my mind that what we really need is a wiki project called Featured Multimedia, which could handle all the file types that aren't images (and perhaps videos, since Featured Pictures has a prior claim on those). I discovered there was Wikipedia:Featured sounds, but it's been dormant since 2011. That catalog would make a good starting point for Featured Multimedia. Moonreach (talk) 20:42, 24 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - edges are a pixel mess! The teapot is clean, would support that. --Janke | Talk 07:29, 25 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I worry about the licensing situation with the teapot. Our copy is tagged CC, but it's a recreation of someone else's 3D model, which is in turn a recreation of a commercial article. It's possible the pathway is still clear - I don't know what the college's license is, and I believe in the US functional items can't have their designs copyrighted, but that's still more hoops than I want to jump through. Moonreach (talk) 15:36, 25 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Comment – If we're going to start allowing 3D models into FP, then we may aswell rename it from Featured Pictures to Featured Media ―Howard • 🌽³³ 08:46, 25 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
See my comment above - I wonder if there is enough interest (and enough such material) that a separate project might be worthwhile. I would estimate that all sounds, videos and 3D objects in Commons are still lesser in number than all the pictures, but they still represent a substantial amount of the media Wikimedia has to offer. Moonreach (talk) 15:59, 25 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - As stated, I can count the pixels, especially at the edges of the shadows. Sir MemeGod  12:32, 25 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
You mean the polygons? ―Howard • 🌽³³ 08:27, 26 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support. This is a nice 3D model. As far as I can tell, the pixellation is entirely the fault of the Mediawiki viewer and not the file itself. Toadspike [Talk] 22:52, 2 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 19:49, 3 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]