File:20200403 Flatten the curve animated GIF.gif

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Description	English: Animated graphic showing "flattening the curve" by slowing the spread of pandemics such as Coronavirus, so that health care demands stay within capacity. Designer's note: An "international" version, without text, is shown and linked below. Graphic was made in response to a request at Commons:Graphic Lab/Illustration workshop (diff). I made 49 individual graphic frames manually with Inkskape (esp. its Bezier tool) and exported as 49 unique PNGs. I imported the 49 PNGs as layers into Gimp. To pad the beginning and end with a "stationary" intro and finish, I added about 33 extra first and last frames within Gimp before exporting as a 30 ms/frame GIF. Example of visualizing changing healthcare capacity (sloping dashed line) is found at: Radtke, Alexander Flatten the coronavirus curve. FlowingData.com. Nathan Yau (editor) (March 9, 2020). Archived from the original on March 12, 2020. Symbols make the graphic friendlier for an international audience.
Date	3 April 2020
Source	Own work
Author	RCraig09

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	18:52, 17 April 2020	1,200 × 675 (4.32 MB)	RCraig09	Version SIX: Changed vertical axis legend to "Active cases"
	20:45, 15 April 2020	1,200 × 675 (4.38 MB)	Sdkb	Reverted to version as of 03:29, 14 April 2020 (UTC) There's a much larger discussion at w:Talk:2019–20_coronavirus_pandemic#Epidemic_curve_graphics. Let that play out.
	20:09, 15 April 2020	1,200 × 675 (3.87 MB)	Danbloch	Reverted to version as of 15:22, 7 April 2020 (UTC); go back to image showing only "flatten the curve", not "flatten the curve, raise the line", per discussion at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Flatten_the_curve#"Flattening_the_curve"_image
	03:29, 14 April 2020	1,200 × 675 (4.38 MB)	RCraig09	Version FIVE: Making healthcare capacity dashed line slant upward and changing legend to "Increasing healthcare capacity. Per discussion at File talk:20200410 Flatten the curve, raise the line - pandemic (English).gif
	15:22, 7 April 2020	1,200 × 675 (3.87 MB)	RCraig09	Version FOUR: Added more English-language explanatory legends especially for en.wikipedia, . . . . . after having uploaded on 6 April 2020 "File:20200406 Flatten the curve animated GIF - International version.gif" that is devoid of text (for non-English-speakers)
	02:50, 4 April 2020	1,200 × 675 (2.96 MB)	RCraig09	VERSION THREE: Removing a few frames to squeeze it under 100 Megapixels. (Version 2 barely exceed 100 MP).
	02:41, 4 April 2020	1,200 × 675 (3.06 MB)	RCraig09	VERSION TWO: Reduced image size from Version One's 1600x900 pixels to only 1200x675 so there will be less than 100 Megapixels and GIF will (hopefully) execute properly in thumbnail view.
	19:03, 3 April 2020	1,600 × 900 (3.9 MB)	RCraig09	Uploaded own work with UploadWizard