Wikipedia:Picture peer review/Game of Life glider

Glider (Conway's Game of Life)

Animation of a "glider" (a pattern in Conway's Game of Life). The "game" consists of creating an initial configuration by filling certain cells on an infinite grid of square cells, then observing how the configuration evolves under the game's rules. The "glider" is an example of a "spaceship": a configuration that translates iself across the grid.

One depiction of the glider has been proposed as a hacker emblem.

Simple but explanatory. This may be one of the best-known Game of Life patterns.

Nominated by

Spikebrennan (talk) 15:43, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

Comments

• Geez Spike, 84x84 pixels? I mean you could argue that it 'serves its purpose', but honestly, at that size? Maybe at say 250x250 you could consider selling people on, but at this size I reckon you'd be taking a real long shot. --jjron (talk) 11:14, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
  • Not sure why the size adversely impacts the quality in this case. consider other animations of mathematical concepts. Spikebrennan (talk) 18:15, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
    • Yeah I know animations can get through at 'under' the standard size requirements, but if you look at those you've linked to they all come around that size I suggested above. What concerns me is that this so tiny - even at fullsize it literally looks like a thumbnail. I was actually wondering why you'd made the thumb so small for the nom, far smaller than standard thumbnail use in articles, and then saw that that's actually its fullsize. What I thought when I first saw it was that I'd prefer to see more 'board', so that instead of the animation panning with the glider, you'd actually see the glider moving across the stationary board; I believe that's a more conventional way to illustrate these. That would be easy to accomplish with added resolution. --jjron (talk) 01:29, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

Seconder

• Nominated at FPC by Spikebrennan. --jjron (talk) 15:42, 28 June 2008 (UTC)