Template talk:Infobox polyhedron

World of Polyhedra
This is a fantastic site, with a flash applet that lets you view and interactively rotate a wireframe model of a polyhedron. All the regular solids, Johnson solids, and a whole lot of others are there. Would it be appropriate to put a link in the template here, rather than edit all of the polyhedron pages on WP? World of Polyhedra - metabigyrate rhombicosidodecahedron

Rpresser 17:15, 21 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Hmmmm... Site seemed too slow to upload for my patience. Definitely I'd not support external links in an infobox. If you like, try in polyhedron. Tom Ruen 01:34, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

That's what I was afraid someone'd say ... I did add a link in Metabigyrate rhombicosidodecahedron. (God I love that name ... rolls off the tongue like a mouthful of ground glass)

I reverted table changes again. The changes make NO borderlines at all in a printable copy. Tom Ruen (talk) 23:32, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

Well, it's good encouragement to get an image! Tom Ruen (talk) 18:29, 27 July 2008 (UTC)

Why does the template require an image?
That's kind of silly. It looks pretty bad when there is no image. see Császár polyhedron. --pfctdayelise (talk) 10:59, 27 July 2008 (UTC)

Tilings need to be handled a little differently
Currently, infoboxes for tilings like Infobox face-uniform tiling (used, e.g., in Cairo tiling) are redirects to this template. This has a problem: the 'dual' parameter is represented in the infobox as Dual polyhedron, which mentions tilings but does not define them, and according to the definition of polyhedron WP uses, polyhedra are 3-dimensional and so tilings are not polyhedra. A better link for tilings would be to the more general dual graph. &mdash; Charles Stewart (talk) 08:20, 5 July 2021 (UTC)

Technical solution for adding 2nd «net_image» to Infobox template?
@Administrator David Eppstein: Would you know any technical solution for adding a 2nd «net_image» (e.g., for File:Net of right pentagonal frustum.png) to the Infobox polyhedron template, please? :-P —JavBol (talk) 01:51, 22 April 2024 (UTC)


 * Does it work to use multiple image with none? That's the only thing I can think of that might work. —David Eppstein (talk) 05:01, 22 April 2024 (UTC)

@Administrator David Eppstein: Thank you for your answer. I've tried many ways to apply your idea, but I've never succeeded. My attempts were probably clumsy; most of them resulted in:
 * «The function [WHATEVER WRITTEN ] does not exist.»...

So, I've tried the following changes at the bottom of the code:
 * | header21  =
 * | data22    =
 * | below    =
 * }} ;
 * }} ;

this seems to work not too badly, but I've not dared publishing it... Should I, please? —JavBol (talk) 16:11, 22 April 2024 (UTC)