User blog:Arsonal/Functionality: Mahjong tiles

One of the objectives of a wiki to document. For a site that talks so much about mahjong, it can be cumbersome if editors have to talk about certain hands but have no way of showing the reader what the hand looks like.

Fortunately, the awesome editors of the Japanese Wikipedia have already considered that and made this template. After some tweaking and conversion into English, the template Tile begins to take shape.

While it's not yet ready for full deployment, the basic functionality is already there. At this point, it cannot display hands that involve open chi, pon, or kan because I need to create images whose tile orientation are rotated. That will take some time. As you can see from the original template on the Japanese Wikipedia, there are a number of combinations to consider, especially when you take the red tiles into account.

But in the meantime, we can display Saki Miyanaga's first rinshan kaihou tsumo in the series, the famed 70 fu 2 han hand.

How's that for functionality?