Category talk:Disdyakis polyhedra untruncated (light and dark brown)

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Additions: over-specific or idiosyncratic?[edit]

@Watchduck:

  • About all your great pedagogical images: thank you very much! Clin
  • About my edit on your Category:
I had added:
(Disdyakisrhombille) Kisrhombille tiling and "symmetric" floret pentagonal tiling"s",
in order to highlight the analogy with:
Chiral tetartoids based on the dyakis dodecahedron;
do you find these additions over-specific or idiosyncratic, please? —JavBol (talk) 16:19, 11 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
"Disdyakisrhombille" seems idiosyncratic.
I don't know what "symmetric" in scare squotes is supposed to mean. Plural-S in scare quotes is just silly.
"untruncated to chiral floret pentagonal tilings" would sound ok to me. --Watchduck (quack) 16:30, 11 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for your answer. I had written "symmetric" floret pentagonal tiling"s", with scare quotes, since the «Chirality» article of Wikipedia says:
«In mathematics, chirality is the property of a figure that is not identical to its mirror image.»,
and since this case is special:
  • with the colors on vertices & edge midpoints, the 2 floret pentagonal tilings are symmetric and not superimposable,
  • but without the colors on vertices & edge midpoints, i.e. in their normal appearance(s), they are symmetric and superimposable.
So... perhaps «untruncated to "chiral" floret pentagonal tilings» would be the least bad phrasing? —JavBol (talk) 17:59, 11 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I don't get it. I would say, that the two tilings are as chiral as the two polyhedra or the two triskelia. Tiling and polyhedron contain a left or right triskelion around their yellow vertices. The vertex colors are descriptive, not arbitrary, so removing them would not increase the symmetry. --Watchduck (quack) 08:09, 12 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for your latest answer and images. You have convinced me. Please, excuse me for having thought so little and "quacked" so much. Clin (My only (bad) excuse is that polyhedra and tilings are rather new to me.) So, now: "untruncated to chiral floret pentagonal tilings" would sound OK to me, too. —JavBol (talk) 16:58, 12 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]