Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Along the River During Qingming Festival

Along the River During Qimgming Festival

Along the River During Qingming Festival; this panorama painting is an 18th century Qing Dynasty reproduction of the famous original by Chinese artist Zhang Zeduan (1085–1145 AD) of the Song Dynasty. This elaborately detailed handscroll painting, supposedly depicting the old medieval city of Kaifeng, is among China's greatest visual masterpieces.

New, bigger, cleaner version from National Palace Museum, Taiwan.

Reason: This enormous 18th century Chinese panorama painting is simply incredible. In many ways it is slightly superior to its original, painted first by Zhang Zeduan (1085–1145 AD), while this painting is a more elaborately-detailed reproduction done 7 centuries later (during the Qing Dynasty). In my opinion, it is one of the greatest panorama paintings ever made.
Articles this image appears in: Panoramic painting, Panorama, Along the River During Qingming Festival
Creator: 百楽兎

Support as nominator — PericlesofAthens 01:36, 6 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose there is some pixilation/artifacts, and some minor stitching errors, but there's a big stitching error between a fourth and a third of the way from the left, just to the right of a bridge.--Here T oHelp 21:14, 7 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Iconic, but certainly could be better. JPEG artifects too appearant, and why is there a break near the right? --antilived^{T | C | G} 01:47, 8 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Support I can see what the above users are saying about the artifacts. But it illustrates the articles well. ~ Arjun 02:10, 8 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Great panorama, poor quality jpg, especially compared to the National Palace Museum version. ~ trialsanderrors 02:38, 8 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - Amazing image, but bad JPG compression - I may make an edit from the original source if I have time, but don't count on it. —Vanderdecken∴ ∫ξ φ 08:11, 8 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per above. So who wants to spend hours cobble together the image from the museum site? (and don't tell me to fix it :( --gren グレン 18:19, 8 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

With a bit of packet sniffing I've found out the internal structure of the images:

http://www.npm.gov.tw/masterpiece/K2A001110/TileGroup$a/7-$b-$c.jpg

where $a = $c = 0-3 and $b = 0-117 (sometimes if $b = 0 it ended up being $a = 1... eg. [1])

It would be easy to snatch them down but I have no idea how to put them together... Anyone know how?--antilived^{T | C | G} 12:32, 10 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

(I don't know how besides in paint which could mess with encoding quality, but) I think the best bet is downloading them all and hosting them so they are easy for someone to get. If you can download them and then e-mail them to me I can host them, I'm sure, if you can't. Then they will be easy to get for anyone with the ability to do the photo editing. (and I can try in paint, maybe + I e-mailed you my e-mail address ~_~) gren グレン 03:05, 11 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

If you think you can put them together (117*4=468 pictures) then I will put together a script and download them soon. --antilived^{T | C | G} 08:16, 11 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

OK, I got them all, pretty impressive. I'll try to put them together via Photoshop. If I can't get it to work, I'll post the html code. ~ trialsanderrors 08:40, 11 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I've sticked them together using ImageMagick montage, and now uploading it. Should I create a new nom since this nom is near its closing date? --antilived^{T | C | G} 10:16, 11 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I just got done: Image:Along the River 7-119-3.jpg. I'd say a new nomination is in order. ~ trialsanderrors 10:24, 11 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think progressive works in MediaWiki resizing, maybe you wanna try the standard jpeg compression? --antilived^{T | C | G} 10:27, 11 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Here is a link which has all of the images... in case someone else wants to try. But, trialsanderrors version looks pretty nice if you download it and look at it on your computer... I'm not sure what needs to be done to it to make it work with mediawiki. So, probably no need for getting the individual ones. gren グレン 10:44, 11 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

here is my version, working with MediaWiki (although also bigger). --antilived^{T | C | G} 11:19, 11 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I didn't realize that about progressive scans and MediaWiki. I'll do a slight brush-up and post it as standard compression. But we should start a new nomination. ~ trialsanderrors 17:53, 11 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

New nomination created. ~ trialsanderrors 20:14, 11 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Superceded by Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Along the River During Qingming Festival 2 . MER-C 08:08, 13 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Not promoted —Julia\^talk 20:18, 14 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]