diff --git a/htroot/NetworkPicture.java b/htroot/NetworkPicture.java
index c4299ffa1..b42ac4443 100644
--- a/htroot/NetworkPicture.java
+++ b/htroot/NetworkPicture.java
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ public class NetworkPicture {
         shortestName = 10;
         longestName = 12;
     
-        ImagePainter img = new ImagePainter(width, height, 0);
+        ImagePainter img = new ImagePainter(width, height, "000010");
         img.setMode(ImagePainter.MODE_ADD);
 
         if (yacyCore.seedDB == null) return img.toImage(true); // no other peers known
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ public class NetworkPicture {
         if (size == 0) return img.toImage(true); // no other peers known
         
         // draw network circle
-        img.setColor("004020");
+        img.setColor("008020");
         img.arc(width / 2, height / 2, innerradius - 20, innerradius + 20, 0, 360);
         
         //System.out.println("Seed Maximum distance is       " + yacySeed.maxDHTDistance);
@@ -177,6 +177,20 @@ public class NetworkPicture {
         int ppm10 = seed.getPPM() / 10;
         if (ppm10 > 0) {
             if (ppm10 > 3) ppm10 = 3;
+            // draw a wave around crawling peers
+            long strength;
+            img.setMode(ImagePainter.MODE_SUB);
+            img.setColor("303030");
+            img.arcArc(x, y, innerradius, angle, dotsize + 1, dotsize + 1, 0, 360);
+            int waveradius = innerradius / 2;
+            for (int r = 0; r < waveradius; r++) {
+                strength = (waveradius - r) * (long) (0x08 * ppm10 * (1.0 + Math.sin(Math.PI * 16 * r / waveradius))) / waveradius;
+                //System.out.println("r = " + r + ", Strength = " + strength);
+                img.setColor((strength << 16) | (strength << 8) | strength);
+                img.arcArc(x, y, innerradius, angle, dotsize + r, dotsize + r, 0, 360);
+            }
+            /*
+            // draw corona
             img.setMode(ImagePainter.MODE_SUB);
             img.setColor("303030");
             img.arcArc(x, y, innerradius, angle, dotsize + 1, dotsize + ppm10 + 1, 0, 360);
@@ -185,6 +199,7 @@ public class NetworkPicture {
             img.arcArc(x, y, innerradius, angle, dotsize + ppm10    , dotsize + ppm10    , 0, 360);
             img.setColor("500000");
             img.arcArc(x, y, innerradius, angle, dotsize + ppm10 + 1, dotsize + ppm10 + 1, 0, 360);
+             */
         }
     }
     
diff --git a/source/de/anomic/plasma/plasmaWordIndexDistribution.java b/source/de/anomic/plasma/plasmaWordIndexDistribution.java
index 48e74fd69..81cb6c4d1 100644
--- a/source/de/anomic/plasma/plasmaWordIndexDistribution.java
+++ b/source/de/anomic/plasma/plasmaWordIndexDistribution.java
@@ -264,7 +264,7 @@ public final class plasmaWordIndexDistribution {
             }
             return indexCount;
         } else {
-            log.logSevere("Index distribution failed. Too less peers (" + hc + ") received the index, not deleted locally.");
+            log.logSevere("Index distribution failed. Too few peers (" + hc + ") received the index, not deleted locally.");
             return -1;
         }
     }
diff --git a/source/de/anomic/tools/ImagePainter.java b/source/de/anomic/tools/ImagePainter.java
index 6bf96e6b3..736e9eb30 100644
--- a/source/de/anomic/tools/ImagePainter.java
+++ b/source/de/anomic/tools/ImagePainter.java
@@ -98,6 +98,10 @@ public class ImagePainter {
     private int  defaultColR, defaultColG, defaultColB;
     private byte defaultMode;
     
+    public ImagePainter(int width, int height, String backgroundColor) {
+        this(width, height, colNum(backgroundColor));
+    }
+    
     public ImagePainter(int width, int height, long backgroundColor) {
         this.width = width;
         this.height = height;
@@ -118,12 +122,12 @@ public class ImagePainter {
         }
     }
     
-    private long colNum(String col) {
+    private static long colNum(String col) {
         return Long.parseLong(col, 16);
         //return Integer.parseInt(col.substring(0,2), 16) << 16 | Integer.parseInt(col.substring(2,4), 16) << 8 | Integer.parseInt(col.substring(4,6), 16);
     }
     
-    private String colStr(long c) {
+    private static String colStr(long c) {
         String s = Long.toHexString(c);
         while (s.length() < 6) s = "0" + s;
         return s;