Talk:Scutoid

Invented on Wikipedia
Okay, this is confusing. The paper announcing was first published on July 28, but the first image we used was created on July 24 by a user named Scutoid: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Prism,_frusta,_prismatoid_and_scutoid.jpg - is this the author? This is blowing my mind. Miserlou (talk) 20:26, 30 July 2018 (UTC)

Name origin
According to Clara Grima-página a mathmatician involved in the project the name originated from the project leaders name Escudero. Translated to latis the name means "escudo". As a joke they called the shape "escu-toids". Later this got shortened to "scutoids". Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_NZ1ql8B8Y&t=791


 * No. Escudero is the guy who holds the shield for a knight (a squire?); it’s one of those surnames derived from a profession. It comes from Latin scūtārius (scutum+arius). I’ll add to the article a link to https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/escudero Tuvalkin (talk) 09:53, 7 August 2018 (UTC)

LM Escudero @lmescu (twitter)
So proud that scutoids reached the "meme" level!!! (10:45 PM - 27 Jul 2018)

69.181.23.220 (talk) 18:56, 3 August 2018 (UTC)

factually wrong citation
Laura Taalman: "This means that Scutoids are not polyhedra, because not all of their faces are planar."

While she seems to have said so, it contradicts the facts (otherwise correct in the article): the are not _necessarily_ planar, therefore not _necessarily_ polyhedra. Also the source is wrong, it should be https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3024272 not a tweet referring to it. How is the description of a related product a quotable source anyway? --Motherofinvention (talk) 11:30, 21 August 2018 (UTC)

Wrong "prism" link
On the illustration showing different polyhedra, "prism" links to the article on optical prisms, not geometric prisms. I would fix it myself, but it requires a depth of understanding of the site that I don't have. Pollifax (talk) 02:43, 9 December 2018 (UTC)

Explain how this is not just a prism and a prismatoid joined at a common face, please
From all the descriptions of this I have read, this appears to be, say, a penta-prism and a penta-hex prismatoid joined at the prism face. How is it different, please? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 156.65.14.254 (talk) 18:03, 12 December 2020 (UTC)

I'm not claiming the above is true, but the descriptions all seem to match that assertion, that this is, mathematically, "merely" a name for a useful complex solid, not a newly discovered/identified simple solid. I concur in terms of the biology, that it is a single-item, and so does need a usable name. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 156.65.14.254 (talk) 18:11, 12 December 2020 (UTC)