User:The New Kid/To-do list

Pages that need to be written

 * Introduction to abstract polytopes
 * Polytope compound
 * Redirects to it: Compound, Polyhedron compound, Polygon compound, Polychoron compound, Compound polytope
 * Mention the existence of Fissary stuff.

Pages that need work

 * Introductory articles
 * Introduction to polytopes
 * Mentions Introduction to uniform polytopes. Do we want?
 * How we might do it: Archimedean solids, mention esquigybcu, go to uniform star polyhedra, then into the 4th dimension saying what categories/individual ones are analogs of 3d ones.
 * Could mention the deliberate exclusion of compounds/exotics/fissaries/whatever, and how those become more numerous in higher dimensions
 * Introduction to higher dimensions
 * I'm sure more can be said in each section
 * The Main Page should say something like "New to polytopes? Check out the introductory articles" in the "About the Polytope Wiki" section.
 * Hypercubic honeycomb
 * Demicross
 * Maybe we could list those CDs that were posted in PD


 * Goursat tetrahedron
 * Desperately needs clean-up and context (especially of that last column in the table)
 * If you're reading this, Boffey, I'm sorry for criticizing your wiki. I thought it was like V&D, and didn't realize it was all the work of one man.
 * List of uniform polyhedra
 * The table is too wide even for my monitor.
 * Truncation, Rectification, Expansion, Omnitruncation
 * I want to write more about these operations, instead of having them go directly to Wythoffian operation. A page on Rectification seems like the best place to say "rectification makes vertices at the old edges' midpoints, birectification makes vertices at the old faces' midpoints, trirectification makes vertices at the old cells' midpoints, and so on" unless each type of operation gets a more distinct section on the Wythoffian page.
 * I will use the {for} template to send people to Wythoffian stuff if they want to go there, though.


 * List of convex uniform polytopes (LOW priority)
 * Add Gap. Sadi is already there
 * Add all non-prismatics up to 8D, probably in collapsible tables
 * List all the ways (multi)prisms can be formed in each dimension.
 * Not in tables, just say for each dimension "you can make prisms out of these uniforms, duoprisms out of polygons and these uniforms..." and so on

CRF polychora
(There are surely more than are mentioned here. They will get the infobox line  if they're not segmentotopes)
 * Remaining convex segmentochora
 * Various CRFs found on Incmats
 * HGS Discovery Index stuff
 * The two rox diminishings I found?



Stellations of icosahedron

 * Could have a single page called "Stellations of the icosahedron" with a table that lists them all (as well as which areas of the stellation diagram they use, and pictures of their diagrams/faces).
 * This may remove the need for 50-ish pages about hard-to-describe objects. (What would we write in the infobox's "Faces" field?)
 * Of course, we could make pages for each separate one...

Orbiforms
(Things like bobipyr, stiscu, rapescu, rastacu - there are surely more than are listed here. They will get the infobox line  if they're not segmentotopes)
 * I saw a redlink for Trireplenished great icosahedron or targi
 * Sidtid-0-3-3-3
 * Disrhombitritrihedron or dritit
 * Semicupolaically faceted icosahedron and its conjugate Semicupolaically faceted great icosahedron (scuffi and scufgi)
 * Quadratisnub tetratetrahedron or quistet

Archimedean polyexa and polyzetta

 * Project scope:
 * ~400 Archimedeans in 7D, ~800 in 8D
 * Total in 7D exceeds the usual trend of doubling the amount of the previous dimension because the Coxeter diagram for E6 itself has a symmetry (like a simplectic CD, reducing number of results) and the one for E7 does not (like a hypercubic CD).
 * ~200 6D duoprisms as facets of 7Ds/ridges of 8Ds, so probably ~400 7D duoprisms as facets of 8Ds
 * Get elements from Incmats or Wikipedia
 * If no Incmats page or Wikipedia entry, calculate facets and ridges manually
 * Problem: I don't know how to calculate the number of facets from a CD.
 * Get verf from CD
 * Problem: I don't know how to turn the lace simplex (from getting the verf) into a wiki-worthy description of the verf. Klitzing's site only describes lace simplices up to 5D.
 * Get circumradius from Coxeter Bot
 * Calculate hypervolume
 * Calculate number of facets meeting at vertices
 * Would probably take over a month to do 7D, not even counting the duoprisms
 * Conclusion: probably not worth that amount of work.

Various regular-symmetric polytopes without element transitivities (usually convex polyhedra)

 * If we have the chamfered Platonics and the ditruncated cube/tetrahedron, why can't we have these?
 * The ditruncated stuff is only on the wiki because each one appears in another polytope! So any weird stuff added needs to have some relation with another polytope, or else we don't need it.
 * They have NO  in the Infobox.
 * Ones I'd like to add:
 * Expanded cuboctahedron and expanded icosidodecahedron
 * Truncated rhombicuboctahedron and truncated rhombicosidodecahedron
 * Maybe a page on Goldberg polyhedra, but this is a very low priority

Other

 * 4D star duotegums (the duals of star 4D duoprisms)
 * OFF files for prisms of 4D uniforms

Toroids

 * Name toroids in a manner that's more consistent with other pages on the wiki.
 * Existing naming scheme for quasi-convex Stewart toroids is "(convex hull)/(N small polyhedra excavated out)(inner central polyhedron excavated out)"
 * Existing naming scheme for other Stewart toroids is "(list and quantity of components)"
 * Both use Stewart's abbreviations, which probably look like names of Coxeter groups to you
 * Proposed naming scheme: "toroidal (component types) (number of faces)"
 * Extremely unintuitive, especially for the quasi-convex. They have annoying (i.e. more than one) amounts of components (or they don't have discernible components at all), and the naming scheme tries to define them by what's left behind, despite the fact that when looking at them, you see what's been removed
 * This name gives no idea of genus or symmetry
 * Saying "toroidal" already has a meaning in uniform polychora. What if we added some kind of number to it, to distinguish it and denote the genus?
 * Make images for toroids, so we don't have the "thousands of really similar isogonals that you can't even visualize" problem.
 * With Sketchup?
 * There's lots of Sketchup images on Wikimedia Commons, so doing this is probably allowed. I just don't know how to properly attribute them
 * With Stella?
 * We could milk the Magentas for images, or even encourage them to find their own toroids.
 * Minor ideas for making pages:
 * Could use the Components field in the infobox (usually used for compounds) to list their components (when they have discernible components)
 * A Genus field in the infobox won't be necessary, as it corresponds bijectively to the Euler characteristic, but it is more intuitive