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Original – The primary structures formed by phospholipids in aqueous solution; the
liposome (a closed bilayer), the micelle, and the bilayer sheet.
Caption adapted from image caption at
Lipid bilayer.
Reason
This artwork by
LadyofHats provides an incredibly detailed yet concise visualization of the three simplest structures adoptable by phospholipid (bi)layers in an aqueous environment. Phospholipid arrangement is at the foundation of biological study and this image gives a great geometric explanation of why cell and organelle membranes form the structures they do.
Leaning to support but I like to see a title (or note) on the image itself, something like "Phospholipids in aqueous solution", to make it more complete as a stand-alone image.
Bammesk (
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18:14, 11 September 2022 (UTC)reply
That's what image captions are for. The advantage of having that sort of text as a caption rather than embedded in the image is that you can adapt the caption to the context rather than forcing the same caption to work for all the different articles the image appears in. Do you demand captions embedded as pixels in the photos nominated here? —
David Eppstein (
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19:29, 13 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Support This is basic cellular biology. It's the basis for the cell membrane and everything related to it, such as several means of transport into and out of the cell. Adam Cuerden(
talk)Has about 8.1% of all
FPs17:56, 12 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Support. We should support encyclopedic and well-rendered diagrammatic content in FPC, not just pretty snapshots of charismatic megafauna and postcard views. This is a high-quality example of this type of image, well illustrates an important distinction in biological membrane structures, and is used prominently to do so in multiple articles (among which
Lipid is listed as vital,
Lipid bilayer both vital and Good Article, and
Micelle is high-importance for biology). It is not easy to make these kinds of images both stylized enough to focus on the important aspects of the topic and to render the three-dimensional shape accurately enough for it to immediately stand out to the reader, and the creator of this image has done an excellent job of exactly that. Of note, it is in a vector rather than raster format, making it more widely reusable (for instance, it would be very easy to change the embedded text, unlike in a photographic image with overlaid and pixelated text). LadyofHats has many good diagrams (I had recent occasion to use
File:Wine grape diagram en.svg off-wiki, for instance) and I think we should feature more images like this. —
David Eppstein (
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19:20, 13 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 20 Sep 2022 at 22:34:55 (UTC)
Original – The primary structures formed by phospholipids in aqueous solution; the
liposome (a closed bilayer), the micelle, and the bilayer sheet.
Caption adapted from image caption at
Lipid bilayer.
Reason
This artwork by
LadyofHats provides an incredibly detailed yet concise visualization of the three simplest structures adoptable by phospholipid (bi)layers in an aqueous environment. Phospholipid arrangement is at the foundation of biological study and this image gives a great geometric explanation of why cell and organelle membranes form the structures they do.
Leaning to support but I like to see a title (or note) on the image itself, something like "Phospholipids in aqueous solution", to make it more complete as a stand-alone image.
Bammesk (
talk)
18:14, 11 September 2022 (UTC)reply
That's what image captions are for. The advantage of having that sort of text as a caption rather than embedded in the image is that you can adapt the caption to the context rather than forcing the same caption to work for all the different articles the image appears in. Do you demand captions embedded as pixels in the photos nominated here? —
David Eppstein (
talk)
19:29, 13 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Support This is basic cellular biology. It's the basis for the cell membrane and everything related to it, such as several means of transport into and out of the cell. Adam Cuerden(
talk)Has about 8.1% of all
FPs17:56, 12 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Support. We should support encyclopedic and well-rendered diagrammatic content in FPC, not just pretty snapshots of charismatic megafauna and postcard views. This is a high-quality example of this type of image, well illustrates an important distinction in biological membrane structures, and is used prominently to do so in multiple articles (among which
Lipid is listed as vital,
Lipid bilayer both vital and Good Article, and
Micelle is high-importance for biology). It is not easy to make these kinds of images both stylized enough to focus on the important aspects of the topic and to render the three-dimensional shape accurately enough for it to immediately stand out to the reader, and the creator of this image has done an excellent job of exactly that. Of note, it is in a vector rather than raster format, making it more widely reusable (for instance, it would be very easy to change the embedded text, unlike in a photographic image with overlaid and pixelated text). LadyofHats has many good diagrams (I had recent occasion to use
File:Wine grape diagram en.svg off-wiki, for instance) and I think we should feature more images like this. —
David Eppstein (
talk)
19:20, 13 September 2022 (UTC)reply