Template talk:Infobox polyhedron

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)

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)

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. — Charles Stewart (talk) 08:20, 5 July 2021 (UTC)

@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 |align=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 {{#invoke:Multiple image|HERE}}] does not exist.»...

So, I've tried the following changes at the bottom of the code:

| header21 = {{#if:{{{net|{{{Net_Image_File|}}}}}}|[[Net (polyhedron)|Net]]}}

| data22 = {{#invoke:InfoboxImage|InfoboxImage|image={{{net|{{{Net_Image_File1|}}}}}}|size=frameless|upright=1.27|alt={{{net_alt1|}}}}}

| data23 = {{#invoke:InfoboxImage|InfoboxImage|image={{{net|{{{Net_Image_File2|}}}}}}|size=frameless|upright=1.27|alt={{{net_alt2|}}}}}

| below = {{{net_caption|}}}

}}</includeonly>;

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)