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by robertw
Fri Jul 23, 2010 12:47 pm
Forum: Stella Feature Requests
Topic: Change colour of printed net lines.
Replies: 8
Views: 85378

I think you can do this already as follows:

Use "Poly->Keep One Part of Compound" (or Ctrl+K) to separate out one part of a compound
Put it in a memory slot ("Edit->Put in Memory" or "m1")
Do whatever editing you want
Add the result to the unedited item in memory ("Edit->Add/Blend from Memory ...
by robertw
Mon Jul 19, 2010 10:12 am
Forum: MineSweeper3D Forum
Topic: Longest world records
Replies: 5
Views: 96049

Hmm, delaying the last time would only work provided you're solving a board that no one else has, and leaves the door open for someone else to more easily beat your record. These are still world record times, taken from the table above it, but they are the boards with the longest world records, ie ...
by robertw
Sat Jul 17, 2010 5:50 am
Forum: MineSweeper3D Forum
Topic: Longest world records
Replies: 5
Views: 96049

I've renamed this new record table to "most difficult boards". "Longest world records" was confusing. Sounded like the slowest times, but it was the boards which took longest to solve, a fair indicator of the challenge they pose.

Rob.
by robertw
Thu Jul 08, 2010 1:58 pm
Forum: MineSweeper3D Forum
Topic: Longest world records
Replies: 5
Views: 96049

Longest world records

I added a section to the world record page listing the 10 longest world records. If you're looking for the most challenging boards, these are probably them!

http://www.software3d.com/Mines3D/World ... hp#longest

Rob.
by robertw
Thu Jul 08, 2010 1:55 pm
Forum: MineSweeper3D Forum
Topic: World record video
Replies: 0
Views: 80757

World record video

Thanks to TriNitro for recording this video as he played to get a new MineSweeper3D world record!

http://www.software3d.com/Mines3D/videos.php

[Edit: I have now added a page with several videos, and updated the above link]

Rob.
by robertw
Thu Jul 08, 2010 1:52 pm
Forum: MineSweeper3D Forum
Topic: Announcing MineSweeper3D 2.6!
Replies: 1
Views: 54846

Announcing MineSweeper3D 2.6!

Hey all,

Just uploaded MineSweeper3D 2.6.

You can get it from http://www.software3d.com/Mines3D/download.php

I've added four new boards, as shown below.
http://www.software3d.com/Mines3D/images/NewBoards2.6.gif

And some nicer frames around the stats and countdown meter areas.

New world ...
by robertw
Mon Jun 21, 2010 2:13 pm
Forum: Stella Feature Requests
Topic: Change colour of printed net lines.
Replies: 8
Views: 85378

The line width can be set already in the dialog box that appears before printing nets. You can increase it a bit without really losing accuracy since printers are very high resolution.

Rob.
by robertw
Sun Jun 20, 2010 1:57 pm
Forum: Stella Feature Requests
Topic: Change colour of printed net lines.
Replies: 8
Views: 85378

Have you tested to see if those other colours really do come out better? I would have thought that you couldn't print a lighter colour on a darker background, but might depend on the printer.

No one's ever asked to be able to change the line colour for net print outs before. I'm afraid it's ...
by robertw
Sat May 22, 2010 7:30 am
Forum: Stella Forum
Topic: Stella image in New York Review of Books
Replies: 8
Views: 41459

My brain is obviously too ingrained with 3D!
Actually having thought some more, I think you were more right than I first thought! Here's my current thinking...

Viewing an object in any number of dimensions presumes light (or similar) travelling from the object to the viewer, and light travels ...
by robertw
Mon May 17, 2010 12:54 pm
Forum: Stella Forum
Topic: Stella image in New York Review of Books
Replies: 8
Views: 41459

You can view a polygon (two dimensions) as a line (one dimension) by looking at it edge on.

But you cannot view it as a point (zero dimensions).

You can view or draw a two dimensional image of a polyhedron (three dimensions)

But you cannot view or draw it as a line (one dimension).
Actually I'm ...
by robertw
Mon May 03, 2010 9:40 am
Forum: Polyhedron Models
Topic: Double Tabs.
Replies: 6
Views: 47560

Actually, that's a point I haven't mentioned before about double-tabbing, that it creates a more rigid connection, as it's like there's a third piece attaching at that edge, like an inner ribbing.

I use 120gsm paper. I found that even 160gsm was too thick. The paper seems too thin till the model ...
by robertw
Mon May 03, 2010 9:30 am
Forum: Polyhedron Models
Topic: Cricut paper cutting machine
Replies: 10
Views: 93303

Nope, sorry, Stella sends nets direct to the printer. I think people have used print-to-PDF, but not sure how flexible that output is.

Can you print direct to the circuit machine?

Rob.
by robertw
Mon Apr 12, 2010 2:41 pm
Forum: Stella Forum
Topic: Stella image in New York Review of Books
Replies: 8
Views: 41459

Stella image in New York Review of Books

Hey guys,

An image of the tesseract (4D cube) made using Stella4D has just appeared in an article in the New York Review of Books. You can see it here: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/apr/08/he-conquered-the-conjecture/?pagination=false

It's the last image in the article.

[Edit ...
by robertw
Mon Apr 12, 2010 2:38 pm
Forum: Stella Forum
Topic: Flexagons
Replies: 1
Views: 16346

I remember making flexagons when I was a kid. Stella isn't designed to make those sort of things, although you could probably force it to print their nets if you already knew what the net needed to look like, by augmenting triangular prisms together to make a kind of 3D extrusion of the net, then ...
by robertw
Tue Apr 06, 2010 12:34 pm
Forum: Polyhedra
Topic: Isohedra with non-convex faces
Replies: 19
Views: 166258

oxenholme wrote:The one on the left has octahedral symmetry. The one on the right has cubic symmetry
Nice. I should point out though that the octahedron and cube have the same symmetries, but I know what you mean :)

Rob.