 | Product Comparison |
| Feature | Small Stella | Great Stella | Stella4D / Stella4D Pro |
|---|---|---|---|
| Polyhedra included | |||
| Platonic solids |  | | |
| Archimedean solids | | | |
| Kepler-Poinsot | | | |
| Prisms/antiprisms | Convex only | | |
| All other uniform polyhedra |  | | |
| Johnson solids | | | |
| "Near misses" (almost Johnson solids) | | | |
| Stewart toroids | | | |
| Compounds | A few | Over 100 | Over 100, plus some 4D compounds |
| Geodesic domes | | | |
| Pyramids, cupolae, cuploids, cupolaic-blends | | | |
| Brückner's 1906 polyhedra | | | |
| Waterman polyhedra | | | 3D and 4D |
| All 16 regular polychora (polychoron = 4D polytope) | | | |
| All 1849 known uniform polychora | | | |
| Uniform duoprisms and antiduoprisms | | | |
| Various 4D uniform fissaries and scaliforms | | | |
| Polyhedral nets (for making paper models) | |||
| Print nets | | | |
| Tabs on nets | | | |
| Scale nets by setting model radius/edge length/etc | | | |
| Multiple nets arranged on each page | | | |
| Group nets by color (optional) | | | |
| Manual tweaking of nets | | | |
| Edge connection IDs so you know what to glue to what | | | |
| Design additional internal parts for increased robustness | | | |
| View nets folding/unfolding in real-time | | | |
| Export net measurements for alternative construction (e.g. wood) | | | |
| 3D nets of 4D polytopes (1, 2) | | | |
| Polyhedral tools | |||
| Animated transitions between models (e.g. 1) | | | |
| Design your own polyhedral tours (e.g. 1) | | | |
| Duality (spherical reciprocation) | | | 3D and 4D |
| Compound with dual | But no nets | | 3D and 4D |
| Morph between duals in real-time (8 methods) (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) | But no nets | | |
| Animated 2D slices of 3D polyhedra (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6) | | | |
| Animated 3D slices of 4D polychora (1, 2, 3, 4) | | | |
| Step through slice depths that hit vertices | | | 3D and 4D |
| Measure distance between vertices, lines and planes | | | 3D and 4D |
| Faceting (examples, description, manual) | | | |
| Augmentation/excavation/drilling (glue polyhedra together) | | | |
| Blend two polyhedra | | | |
| Convex hulls and cores | | | 3D and 4D |
| Zonohedrify (create zonohedron from other polyhedron) | | | |
| Geodesic spheres based on any other polyhedron | | | |
| Choose subsymmetry (affects coloring, stellation etc) | | | |
| Delete/keep one part of compound | | | 3D and 4D |
| Multi-level undo/redo | | | |
| Stellation | |||
| Stellation of polyhedra (examples, description) | | | |
| Various stellation criteria (Miller's rules, fully supported, mainline etc) | | | |
| Step through stellations, or choose cells manually | | | |
| 2D stellation diagrams | | | |
| Stellation diagrams attached to 3D polyhedron | | | |
| Cell diagrams (tree structure of stellation cells) | | | |
| Stellation of arbitrary set of planes | | | |
| 4D-specific tools | |||
| View 3D projections of 4D polytopes (orthogonal or perspective, e.g. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6) | | | |
| Rotate polytopes in 4D | | | |
| 3D cross-sections of 4D polytopes (e.g. 1, 2, 3, 4, and animated: 5, 6, 7) | | | |
| View 3D nets of polychora (e.g. 1, 2, 3, 4) | | | |
| Manually rearrange cells in nets | | | |
| View 3D vertex figures of polychora | | | |
| View 3D cells of polychora | | | |
| Truncate, rectify, and expand polychora | | | |
| Convex hulls and cores of polychora | | | |
| Build 4D prisms from 3D polyhedra | | | |
| Create 4D step prisms and gyrochora | | | |
| Decorative tools | |||
| Comprehensive choices for face/edge/vertex coloring | | | |
| Put images/photos on faces (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) | | | |
| Interactive control of image position/rotation/scale | | | |
| Images included in printed nets (1, 2) | | | |
| Display formatted text on faces/edges/vertices | | | |
| Display tools | |||
| Geomag rendering mode (e.g. 1, 2, 3, 4) | | | |
| Stereoscopic 3D display (with red/blue glasses or cross-eyed/parallel-eyed pair) | | | |
| Spheres at vertices/cylinders along edges | | | |
| Hide some faces | | | |
| Display rotational symmeties | | | |
| Display reflective symmeties | | | |
| Display vertex figures | | | |
| Merge colors of overlapping coplanar faces | | | |
| Information window | |||
| Shows alternative names | | | |
| Shows Wenninger index & page number | | | |
| Shows Wythoff symbol | | | |
| Shows number of faces/edges/vertices | | | |
| Shows number of parts in compound | | | |
| Shows genus, density, surface area, volume | | | |
| Number of parts in nets | | | |
| Number of edges to cut/fold/glue in nets | | | |
| Stellation info | | | |
| Input/Output | |||
| Export anti-aliased 2D images and videos in various formats | | | |
| Import 3D polyhedra from OFF format (Requires closed surface with double precision coordinates) | | | |
| Import 4D polytopes from OFF format (Requires double precision coordinates) | | | |
| Export 3D polyhedra to DXF format | | | |
| Export 3D polyhedra to POV-Ray format | | | |
| Export 3D polyhedra to VRML format | | | |
| Export 3D polyhedra to OBJ format | | | |
| Export 3D polyhedra to OFF format | | | |
| Export 3D polyhedra to STL format | | | |
| Licensing | |||
| For commercial use | | | Stella4D: , Stella4D Pro: |
| Prices | |||
| Free demo | | | |
| Single user license | $14 | $45 | Stella4D: $67, Stella4D Pro: $120 |
| School license | $75 | $219 | Stella4D: $329 |
| University license | $125 | $359 | Stella4D: $545 |
