DISCUSSION:
The goal, or the mission, of this project was to create a figure that illustrated the interaction between the koi fish and plants in Durfree conservatory. The replicated figure (Figure 2) completed that task but with differences in format. In my methods, I did not specify some components that could have made the replicate more like the original .
I did not specify how many koi fish were to be present in the frame when taking the photos. That should have been a factor I should have taken into consideration for my methods. By counting the number of fish in the frame, their color, and their relative size to one another and other objects in the pond, the replicate would have resulted in three yellow, two orange, and two white koi fish. With that amount of fish in the frame of the photo for the top left of the figure, the fish would be shown at a smaller scale rather than that with a single fish.
The original figure has a glare/reflection of the glass ceiling in the water in multiple panels, while the replicate features little to none. This could be because of the size scale and zoom of the camera on the subjects in Figure 2 or could have been due to the photo being taken at a different time of day. An 11 am time for a school week may mean that the creator of Figure 2 was in class, off campus, or otherwise busy. I myself had a class thirty minutes after I took the photos of the interaction.
For the plant panel at the top right of the figure, I also did not state the specific direction in which I took the photo of the plants. The original figure did not feature the stairs of the conservatory like the replicate did. I took the photo at an angle from the bridge but the inclusion of the stairs in the replicate implies that the photo was taken from the center of the bridge towards the entrance of the building stated in the methods.
As for making the figure itself, I did state the scale of the border, but I did not indicate what the specific scale was and where to find it on the page. Looking back now there were two scale options and a “4” of one is more thick than a “4” from the other and that can account for the border thickness difference. For the arrow, I stated I used “an arrow with a feathered end” and while at the time I thought that was specific, looking at the style of the other arrows it was not. Multiple arrows in the tab of arrows on the format website had “feathered ends”, I had just chosen the first one I saw. The original figure also features a watermark from the website that is not on the replicate. This implies that perhaps the replicate was not made using the same website as the original or the creator was able to get rid of it. I did not mention the watermark in my methods so whether or not to include it was up to the creator.
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