File talk:Trigonometric functions.svg
{{helpme|en}} The colors make the image very confusing. How do I revise it so that the inverses of the trigonometric functions have similar colors to the trigonometric functions themselves? (i.e. sine=light blue, cosecant=dark blue etc.) TeleComNasSprVen (talk) 20:05, 23 June 2010 (UTC)
- Pardon? The inverse of sine is arc sine, the cosecant is a totally different function! axpdeHello! 08:11, 26 June 2010 (UTC)
- To get help tweaking an illustration, post a request at "Commons:Graphic Lab/Illustration workshop". — Cheers, JackLee –talk– 11:14, 26 June 2010 (UTC)
- I think the OP wants the reciprocal functions to be similar colours, not the inverse
functions. You need to specify which you mean. Here is a helpful table:
- I think the OP wants the reciprocal functions to be similar colours, not the inverse
| Function | Cofunction | Reciprocal | Inverse |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sine | Cosine | Cosecant | Arcsine |
| Tangent | Cotangent | Cotangent | Arctangent |
| Secant | Cosecant | Cosine | Arcsecant |
Thanks for all your ideas, guys. I'll take a look at them. TeleComNasSprVen (talk) 19:04, 26 June 2010 (UTC)
Not sure if changing the colours on this was a good idea. Looking at its usage across the Wikipedias, nearly every page puts a caption underneath naming the functions in the relevant language - with the text in the original colours. Updating them all isn't really an option, since you can't make text dotted. So either we should find another multilingual way to mark which function is which, or we should revert to the original colours. --Naleh, 23:03, 24 August 2010 (UTC)
- Why has no one done anything about this? I have now reverted to the original file. It might have been a better colour scheme (no comment on that) but how is it a constructive thing to do if all the articles which use it have an incompatible description? Suggest uploading as an alternative version if you really want those colours, but it seems pointless if you don't intend to update the prose in the articles. SpinningSpark 06:50, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
- And I just reverted the edit to the description that resulted in this
- An image showing the trigonometric functions on 2d space:
Orange - Cosine, Magenta - Sine, Cyan - Tangent, Blue - Cosecant, Red - Secant, Yellow - Cotangent.
- Completely half-baked piece of work. This is something that needs doing thoroughly across multiple wikis or else left alone. SpinningSpark 07:10, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
- Okay, I'll go through and edit the links for the languages I know about. The old colours and line styles are very confusing; it's difficult to work out what the primary functions are by just looking at the picture. Gringer (talk) 04:10, 25 September 2010 (UTC)
- I've done all the ones I could change easily (just changing colours of text), appealing to someone who understands the language to translate my 'dotted' ammendment. I couldn't change the chinese one though, and have no idea what the error message about that said. Gringer (talk) 04:44, 25 September 2010 (UTC)
- That's just not acceptable to mess up someone elses wiki. This is the kind of nonsense that happens all the time on Commons; this site should be a safe repository for files, not have them randomly change without warning. You must either to fix the problem, find someone to help you, or put everything back how it was. There is no reason why you cannot leave the original file as it was and upload a new one more to your liking which can be used to replace just the wikis you are interested in. While you are about it, you should also remove the English key as this limits its usefulness in other languages. SpinningSpark 19:14, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
- The problem that I was originally tasked with fixing is this image (e.g. see here). I would rather have a good looking image with captions that need changing than a really confusing image with captions that match the image. I believe it to be the nature of wikis for files and articles to be in a process of continual improvement, and reverts because of consensus view from other languages don't make much sense to me. Due to disagreements here, I'll bow out from this particular discussion and leave it for other people to improve upon. Gringer (talk) 04:56, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
- That's just not acceptable to mess up someone elses wiki. This is the kind of nonsense that happens all the time on Commons; this site should be a safe repository for files, not have them randomly change without warning. You must either to fix the problem, find someone to help you, or put everything back how it was. There is no reason why you cannot leave the original file as it was and upload a new one more to your liking which can be used to replace just the wikis you are interested in. While you are about it, you should also remove the English key as this limits its usefulness in other languages. SpinningSpark 19:14, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
- I've done all the ones I could change easily (just changing colours of text), appealing to someone who understands the language to translate my 'dotted' ammendment. I couldn't change the chinese one though, and have no idea what the error message about that said. Gringer (talk) 04:44, 25 September 2010 (UTC)
- Okay, I'll go through and edit the links for the languages I know about. The old colours and line styles are very confusing; it's difficult to work out what the primary functions are by just looking at the picture. Gringer (talk) 04:10, 25 September 2010 (UTC)
