Thanks for the great work, Dominik ! I was getting worried about the overflow of similar pictures of mediocre specimens of common minerals in many of the Mindat galleries. That was a great way of presenting the most interesting pictures sorted according to the different habits of the minerals !
Knut

Knut Eldjarn
28th Oct 2007 7:43pm

Simply fantastic Dominik, and a lot of work begind the scenes, I know, thank you!
Suggestion: Anatase, feldspar (adularia), apatite.
Christian


Christian Bracke
29th Oct 2007 8:04am

Very nice! Lovely job!!

Eddy Vervloet
29th Oct 2007 8:52am

A great start. Would it be possible to put a caption with each photo indicating the locality and link it to that particular mindat locality? and if possible the size of the specimen or crystals?. I know you can click on the image and get more information but that is distracting. Perhaps arrange them alphabetically by country?
Rock Currier


Rock Currier
30th Oct 2007 10:45am

Hi Rock,
Your suggestion echoes that from David von Bargen in the message board.
I deliberately ommited captions on the photos, for the following reasons:
- the information is just 1 click away (I don't know what browser you use, but with tabbed browsing and mouse gestures it's not distracting)
- the locality strings can take up a lot of space, disrupting the neat tilling of the thumbnails.
- the geo-political subdivisioning does not provide much enlightenment
- Without the locality data, you can use this page for quizzes

I wanted to keep the page layout very simple and uncluttered, focusing solely on habits and esthetics. In this context geopolitical information appears secondary to me.

Regarding the alphabetical arrangement, I'm afraid the pictures are already arranged according to morphological and pictorial similarity, resulting in similar pieces from different locations ending up next to each other, and pieces from the same locality being scattered all over the page. That's intentional too :-).

Dominik










Dominik Schläfli
30th Oct 2007 4:39pm

This is exactly what the articles system was designed for - thank you Dominik for producing such a great example of what it's for.

I think for localities it might be a good to stick just a country name under each - this would work for Rhodochrosite where if you put 'Peru' or 'South America' it is probably enough.

Jolyon


Jolyon Ralph
31st Oct 2007 12:04pm

Fantastic work and SUPERB foto!!!
This is really great work!

Vita

Vítězslav Snášel
20th Dec 2007 8:24pm