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, 5 months and 14 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
• [2]
• 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

Han Kang The Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to South Korean poet and novelist Han Kang (pictured). The Nobel Prize in Chemistry is divided, with half awarded to Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper for their work on protein structure prediction and the other half to David Baker for his work on computational protein design. Hurricane Milton makes landfall in the U.S. state of Florida. John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton receive the Nobel Prize in Physics for their research in machine learning with artificial neural networks. Ongoing: Israel–Hamas war Israel–Hezbollah conflict Russian invasion of Ukraine timeline Sudanese civil war timeline Recent deaths: Lore Segal Brian Hastings Lily Ebert Helmut Bauer Billy Shaw Ratan Tata

Picture of the day

Europa Clipper is a space probe developed by NASA and scheduled for launch in October 2024. The largest spacecraft NASA has built for a planetary mission, Europa Clipper is designed to study Jupiter's moon Europa through a series of flybys while in orbit around Jupiter, with the goals of exploring Europa, investigating its habitability, and aiding in the selection of a landing site for the future Europa Lander. It is expected to reach its destination in 2030. This photograph shows a commemorative plate, 7 by 11 inches (18 by 28 centimeters) in size and made of tantalum, that is attached to the outside of the space probe to seal an entrance to a vault designed to protect the electronics from Jupiter's radiation. The outer face of the plate, pictured here, is etched with waveforms of audio recordings of the word water translated into 103 languages, radiating outwards from a representation of the American Sign Language sign for the same word. The inner face of the plate features a work by the American poet Ada Limón.Photograph credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech; photographed by Ryan Lannom