Editing Talk:Johnson solid (section)

== A Name for the #84 - #92 group? [Sporadics proposed 2009-02-21]==

The series #84 - #92 are not derived from cut-and-paste of Platonics, Archimedians, and prisms.
I put forth a trial name in the table: Johnson Special solids, after fiddling with a thesaurus for a while, thinking that they deserved better than "Miscellaneous".  (One of them is actually an augmented Johnson special.)  Other possibilities are Johnson Unique, Johnson Peculiar, Johnson Disctinctive, Johnson Elemental, etc.

: [http://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/symmetry/johnsonp.htm Steven Dutch] calls them "Complex Elementary Forms".  &mdash;[[User:Tamfang|Tamfang]] 23:42, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

:They're not really a set though, are they? As far as I can see, only the sphenocoronas form a set, and all the others are one-of-a-kind shapes. I think some sort of generic name like "Miscellaneous" or "Other" is the best way to describe them. "Special" indicates some sort of status they don't really have. Did Johnson himself give the group a name? In fact, did he group them at all? — [[User:Sjorford|sjorford]][[User talk:Sjorford|++]] 09:04, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

Very well, I will revert it back to Miscellaneous as I found it.

Any views on the name "Sporadics" for this part of the series? [[User:AndrewKepert]] used
the term in passing, and I believe it fits the bill of not asserting commonality, whilst being less dismissive than "Miscellaneous". This collection is the most interesting 
to me because the faces generate new angles, and as I was modeling with Geomag, this
gave new model possibilities.

[[User:Karl Horton|Karl Horton]] ([[User talk:Karl Horton|talk]]) 14:56, 22 February 2009 (UTC)

: I like it well enough, but making up our own words is against the rules; we need to find a term already in use in the field.  For whatever it's worth, [http://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/symmetry/johnsonp.htm this page] calls them "Complex Elementary Forms".  —[[User:Tamfang|Tamfang]] ([[User talk:Tamfang|talk]]) 09:33, 23 February 2009 (UTC)