User:Tomruen/polyhedron db testing

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Welcome to my "Polyhedron database testing" page.

I've linked this to talk pages for polyhedra which I've replaced the stat tables.

Please use this "Talk" page for questions. (Or edit this page as well if you'd like to help with this project.)

Contents 1 History 2 Active templates 3 Example usage 4 Polyhedron database

[edit] History

• 1/20/06: User:Salix alba set up this database system. See User:Pfafrich/test
• 3/2/06: I began extending it. See: Template_talk:Polyhedra_DB
• 3/3/06: I split uniform database into 3 files: reg/semireg/uniform and accessed as infotable in all 75 uniform polyhedra models. (Also comapred list of uniform polyhedra to database and made corrections (mostly in vert configurations)

[edit] Active templates

• Database templates
  • Original (Not used)
    • Template:Polyhedra_DB - 75 uniform polyhedra, minus snubs
    • Template:Polyhedra_snub_DB - uniform "snub" forms
  • Reorganized: (Existing) IDEA: Group by type with slightly different "fields" for each type
    1. Template:Reg polyhedra db - 9 Platonic and Kepler-Poinsot solids.
    2. Template:Semireg polyhedra db - 13 semiregular polyhedra
    3. Template:Uniform polyhedra db - nonconvex, nonprisms remainder, sorted by U-indices!
  • PLAN (empty so far)
    • Template:Prism polyhedra db - samples from set of prism/antiprisms
    • Template:Semireg dual polyhedra db - 13 semiregular duals
    • Template:Uniform dual polyhedra db - nonconvex, nonprism dual remainder
    • Template:Johnson polyhedra db - Johnson solid
    • Template:Johnson dual polyhedra db - Johnson solid
    • Template:Uniform tiles db
    • Template:Uniform dual tiles db
• Info-boxes templates
  1. Template:Uniform polyhedron stat table - General uniform
  2. Template:Reg polyhedron stat table - Regular convex solids
  3. Template:Reg nonconvex polyhedron stat table - Regular nonconvex solids
• Wiki-table templates
  1. Template:Semireg polyhedron stat table - Semiregular convex solids
  2. Template:Uniform polyhedron full table - draft for eventual replacement of list of uniform polyhedra

[edit] Example usage

• User:Tomruen/List of uniform polyhedra and tilings

[edit] Polyhedron database

Tasks completed

1. 3/2/06: Added stat table to most nonconvex uniform polyhedron articles
   • NEW Template:Uniform polyhedron stat table
2. 3/3/06: Added platonic solid infobox, and added to articles
   • NEW Template:Reg polyhedron stat table
   • NEW Template:Reg nonconvex polyhedron stat table
   • Extended database fields for new items (only for 9 regulars)
   • Compare/correct database to current article list of uniform polyhedra
   • NEW Template:Semireg polyhedron stat table
   • Complete new db fields - dualname/schlafi/prop/image2
   • Update articles
3. 11/28/06 - Added -image3 field to 9 regular forms and 13 semiregular nonprismatic Archimedean solids and infobox links to rotating animated gifs.

Tasks ahead

1. Prisms prism (geometry) and antiprism
   1. Add db entries uniform prisms
   2. New stat table
   3. Update articles
2. Tilings
   1. Add db unifrom tilings
   2. New stat table
   3. Update articles
3. Create new summary list tables:
   1. list of uniform polyhedra and diversify into column sortable copies
      1. list of uniform polyhedra --> redirect to desired "default" below
      2. list of uniform polyhedra by u-index
      3. list of uniform polyhedra by w-index
      4. list of uniform polyhedra by wythoff
      5. etc.
   • ALso replace: List of Wenninger polyhedron models

FUTURE?!

1. Do can we do last/next "fields" for sequencing in stat tables (like done with Johnsons now)
2. Determine (generation time) efficiency of one or multiple database files
3. Expand polyhedron stat table templates and replace for all uniform forms
4. New database for face-uniform (duals)
5. New database for Johnson solids
6. ...