Talk:Switch engine ping-pong

Could someone make an image for this page, like the other small quadratic-growth pattern pages (e.g. 24-cell quadratic growth) have? 77topaz (talk) 00:30, 20 February 2018 (UTC)

I think this pattern is a bit too sparse to lend itself to having a good image, but here's a picture of the entire thing, just so the infobox will have something:

Switch engine ping-pong

Apple Bottom (talk) 12:10, 20 February 2018 (UTC)

The other low-cell-count quadratic growth patterns (like the one I linked) are also sparse, but their images are zoomed into to the live parts. 77topaz (talk) 06:23, 21 February 2018 (UTC)

Yes, but (not having looked at them, and discussing from memory) with those there's just two parts to the pattern; the switch engine ping-pong has three, as the two parts in the "upper left" corner are sufficiently separated to not show up as more than specks if included in the same zoomed-in picture. So you'd have to have a picture roughly like this:

                        (zoomed subpattern)
                       .
                      .
                     .
                    . .
                   .   .
(zoomed subpattern)     .
                         .
                          .
                           .
                            (zoomed subpattern)

...and I think that that would not only be difficult to pull off, I'm also unsure whether it would be all that enlightening. (The goal, after all, is to give the user a feeling for what the whole pattern looks like!)

But by all means feel free to create a better image! It is a wiki, after all. Apple Bottom (talk) 09:49, 21 February 2018 (UTC)

Alternatively, we could have separate zoomed-in images of each of the three parts in the gallery section, like the page metacatacryst has. 77topaz (talk) 19:53, 21 February 2018 (UTC)