Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Animated light dispersion

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Original – An animation showing how a prism (the triangle) separates different frequencies of white light into a rainbow.

Reason: Animated vision of light wave separation in a prism, as made famous by Pink Floyd. Assessed as a Quality Image on Commons and featured there as media of the day.
Articles in which this image appears: Dispersion (optics), Wavelength, Optics, Wave
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Sciences/Others
Creator: Lucas Vieira

Support as nominator – Moonreach (talk) 15:59, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support – Bammesk (talk) 01:24, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support – Vulcan❯❯❯Sphere! 10:50, 27 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support — Chris Woodrich (talk) 15:44, 27 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I'm a little worried about the diagram being misleading since it depicts the speed of light as being larger for lower frequencies. Isn't that inaccurate? hinnk (talk) 02:57, 28 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It isn't misleading. It's accurate. The fact that higher frequencies travel through more cycles, in a given time span, does not mean (or imply) that they move slower. In air all frequencies are moving at the same speed. In the prism the higher frequencies are moving slightly slower, as they should (in this case 25% slower). Also the relations between frequencies, speeds and angles of deflection are proper. Bammesk (talk) 15:02, 28 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Cool, I'll take your word for it. This was an issue in a previous version of the image (see c:File talk:Light dispersion conceptual waves.gif) so I'm glad it's been fully corrected in the current one. hinnk (talk) 23:23, 28 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Light dispersion conceptual waves.gif --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 16:00, 4 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]