User:Tomruen

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This user currently lives in the U.S. State of Minnesota.

This user has been on Wikipedia for 20 years, 6 months and 17 days.

This user has been editing Wikipedia for more than 15 years.

This user is a member of WikiProject Polyhedra.

This user is a member of the Eclipse Wikiproject.

This user is a member of WikiProject Astronomical objects.

Contact

Self

Hi, my name is Tom Ruen. If you'd like to contact me, try out the form at: Special:Emailuser/tomruen

I also edit from User:SockPuppetForTomruen, mostly for eclipses.

My work here

I first came on here to edit on April 28, 2004 (19 years ago now!) It is an addicting idea to try to add to something much bigger than I could ever do. I am a little skeptical over the idea of freedom to change anything, but overall I'm very impressed by the quality of articles and I have faith good work is being done and I can add to it.

There are many quality websites out there and it seems silly to duplicate too much. I like the idea of learning about something and testing my knowledge by trying to share it. For me that motivates much of my efforts here.

Primary topics I've worked on include geometry, and astronomy.

My specialty has primarily been image generation, perhaps because I've found so many articles where useful images were absent. I try to make quality images, but I will compromise perfection for meaningful improvement. I'm happy if anyone can replace my images with better ones.

Active work and subpages

Images

Home Space Uniform polyhedra (Thanks Rob!) Truncated icosidodecahedron Uniform tilings Hyperbolic tilings {∞,∞} (Thanks Anton !) t0,1,2,3{5,3,3}, Uniform polychora (Thanks Fritz!) Uniform honeycombs (Thanks Anton!) {5,3,4} Hyperbolic honeycombs (Thanks Jeff!) {34,2,1}, Semiregular E-polytopes Thanks Rocchini! t{3,5,3}, Hyperbolic honeycombs Thanks Roice! {6,3,3} Paracompact uniform honeycombs More thanks Rocchini! {3,3,7} Lorentzian honeycomb Thanks Roice! {7,3,3} Lorentzian honeycomb Thanks Roice! Past Future Leap years

• User:Tomruen/subpages

About me

• Born (1968-04-16) April 16, 1968, I live near Minneapolis, Minnesota. I like astronomy, science, math, running, bicycling, reading, writing, photography, and gardening.
• I do computer programming for a living, mostly in Java, Javascript, C#, C++, and Delphi.
• I have a B.S. in Computer Science and Mathematics, minor in Physics (astronomy), 1991, from the U of MN.
• https://twitter.com/Tom_Ruen

Pictures

Artistic comparison of Pluto, Eris, Makemake, Haumea, Gonggong (2007 OR10), Sedna, Quaoar, Orcus, 2002 MS₄, and Salacia.

• Astronomy Picture of the Day, November 12, 2003
• Wikipedia:Picture of the day/November 10, 2005
  • User:Tomruen/2006featuredpicture #10 Copied from on Commons Picture of 2006 [1]
• Mars animation 2003, or simulated rotation April 2014
• Sunrise corona animation
• File:Venus_set_may_29_2020.gif Crescent venus setting
• File:Asteroid_flyby_2015_TB145.gif 2015 TB145 Halloween flyby animation
• File:Saturn view from earth 2009.gif Saturn animation, 2009 ring crossing
• File:Saturn timelapse-29 years.gif Saturn animation for 29 years. (or as seen from Jupiter, 2000-2333, or from Pluto, 1890-2138
• File:Lunar_eclipse_chart_close-2010Dec21_animation.gif 2010 lunar eclipse animation, or April 2014 lunar eclipse

Links

• {{sfn|Smith|2005|p=25}} shortened footnote
• {{rp|pages}} reference page * <nowiki>{{anchor|text}} .. linking between sections
• {{clear|left}} ... flow text past left images, like <DIV style="clear:both;"/>
• [[Category:Minor planet object articles (unnumbered)]]
• <source lang="pascal">
• {{columns-list|colwidth=10em| ...}}
• Edit counter
• Texvc TEX formatting on wiki
• Unicodes 2000-2fff Inverted-Y: & #8516; = ⅄, hex 2144
• http://frodox.ch/infoboxplanet/rapid.php
• http://word2cleanhtml.com
• http://bmanolov.free.fr/html2wiki-tables.php HTML to Wiki Converter
• unicodes: Isomorphism ≅, approximate ≈, ↔
• Special:Newimages
• Wikipedia:Keyboard shortcuts
• Wikipedia:Vandalism in progress
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Wiki Syntax
• Wikipedia:Template messages/Merging and splitting
• Wikipedia:Deletion policy
  • {{ deletebecause|Reason. }}
  • {{ deprecated|date= }}
• Wikipedia:Oversight - permanent deletion of revision history
• αβγδεζηθικλμνξοπρστυφχψω
• Macro codes:
  1. $1000 = US$36,624 in 1900
  2. {{Unreferenced}}
  3. {{cleanupdate| DATE }}
  4. {{db-author}} - delete article with wrong name
  5. {{db-f1}} - delete image with wrong name
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• Wikipedia:Template messages/Cleanup
• Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not
• Wikipedia:Bot requests#Script generation of uniform polyhedra articles
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• Wikipedia:WikiProject Mathematics

Wiki news

• [3] Jimmy Wales is founder of Wikipedia, the self-organizing, self-correcting, ever-expanding, and thoroughly addictive encyclopedia of the future. In this presentation, he explains how Wikipedia's collaborative system works, and why it succeeds. (Recorded July 2005 in Oxford, UK. Duration: 20:47)
• Jimmy Wales’s benevolent Wikipedia wisdom By DAVID HOROVITZ 07/01/2011

Justin Welby Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby (pictured) announces his resignation as a result of the John Smyth abuse scandal in the Church of England. In Zhuhai, China, 35 people are killed in a vehicle-ramming attack. Alliance for Change, led by Navin Ramgoolam, wins the Mauritian general election. A suicide bombing by the Balochistan Liberation Army at the Quetta railway station, Pakistan, kills 32 people. The German ruling coalition collapses over disagreements on economic policies. Ongoing: Israel–Hamas war Israel–Hezbollah conflict Russian invasion of Ukraine timeline Sudanese civil war timeline Recent deaths: Timothy West Barbara Aland Johannes Beutler Judith Jamison June Spencer John Nott

Picture of the day

Percy Grainger (1882–1961) was an Australian-born composer, arranger and pianist who played a prominent role in the revival of interest in British folk music in the early 20th century. Grainger left Australia in 1895 to study at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt. Between 1901 and 1914 he was based in London, where he established himself first as a society pianist and later as a concert performer, composer and collector of original folk melodies. He met many of the significant figures in European music, forming friendships with Frederick Delius and Edvard Grieg, and became a champion of Nordic music and culture. In 1914, Grainger moved to the United States, where he took citizenship in 1918. He experimented with music machines that he hoped would supersede human interpretation. Although much of his work was experimental and unusual, the piece with which he is most generally associated is his piano arrangement of the folk-dance tune "Country Gardens". This glass negative of Grainger was taken at some point around 1915–1920.Photograph credit: Bain News Service; restored by Adam Cuerden and MyCatIsAChonk