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by Ulrich
Thu Mar 28, 2013 7:14 pm
Forum: Polyhedra
Topic: Faceted snub cube
Replies: 13
Views: 144703

Re: Faceted Snub Cube

Thanks!

This is a picture of my model of the dual of the other one, derived from the snub dodecahedron:

Image

It is made of one kind of crossed hexagons

Ulrich
by Ulrich
Mon Mar 25, 2013 7:53 am
Forum: Polyhedron Models
Topic: Help with MW63
Replies: 22
Views: 192495

I made a similar model where the top vertices of the pentagrammic pyramids are pointing towards the center:

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I glued the model with UHU hart, no threads were needed.

Ulrich
by Ulrich
Mon Mar 11, 2013 12:53 pm
Forum: Polyhedra
Topic: Faceted snub cube
Replies: 13
Views: 144703

This is my model of Robert's facetted snub cube:

Image

I call it "24 scalars".

Ulrich
by Ulrich
Mon Mar 04, 2013 7:32 am
Forum: Polyhedron Models
Topic: Zonohedrified Crossed Heptagrammic Cupolaic Blend
Replies: 4
Views: 66053

Very nice model! It reminds me of a lamp Hans Schepker built, see:
http://glassgeometry.com/DesertColors/s ... CN2525.htm

Ulrich
by Ulrich
Mon Nov 05, 2012 11:07 am
Forum: Polyhedra
Topic: Gilson: Polyhedra - A New Approach
Replies: 20
Views: 172617

If the lateral pentagons are regular and their edge length is 1, Stella tells me that the other edge length is 4.69217462142686, the acute angle is 29.8878°:

http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh82/Heinzzweidrei/gilson_penta.jpg

metric data:
28 facelets, of 2 types; 70 edgelets; 44 vertices, of ...
by Ulrich
Sun Oct 21, 2012 5:35 pm
Forum: Polyhedron Models
Topic: Paper cutting
Replies: 4
Views: 62234

Robert wrote: maybe someone can tell me what would be needed from Stella's net-printing in order to make use of these devices.

They wanted a .cdr-file which I got by importing and elaborating into Corel Draw a pdf-print from stella's stellation diagram.
This is not that easy like it sounds ...
by Ulrich
Fri Oct 19, 2012 6:16 am
Forum: Polyhedron Models
Topic: Paper cutting
Replies: 4
Views: 62234

I had a professional laser cutting service cut one of my patterns from rather thick paper (150 g/m²) and the result was really great! Very neat cutting of rather complicated star patterns, and the folding edges scored.

Ulrich
by Ulrich
Wed Jul 04, 2012 1:53 pm
Forum: Polyhedra
Topic: Faceted snub cube
Replies: 13
Views: 144703


By the way, the same thing doesn't work with the snub dodecahedron, in case anyone was wondering, because the edges placed diagonally across the pentagons leave a pentagrammic hole to fill, where as those across the square faces of the snub cube meet others to close the shape.

But at least that ...
by Ulrich
Tue Jul 03, 2012 7:49 am
Forum: Polyhedra
Topic: Procedure to make compounds
Replies: 3
Views: 57392

Re: Procedure to make compounds

Hi,
I am trying to make a compound but am unable to find the procedure. I have a faceted tetrahedra that I want to make into a compound 5. Thanks for any help.

You put the faceted tetrahedron into memory 1. Then you select the tetrahedron from the platonics and add the model from memory 1 by ...
by Ulrich
Fri Jun 29, 2012 8:06 am
Forum: Polyhedron Models
Topic: twisted ring
Replies: 8
Views: 91010

Re: Tutorial

Here you find a pdf-file with a description how they can be made:

http://www.polyedergarten.de/Constructi ... _rings.pdf

Ulrich
by Ulrich
Wed Apr 11, 2012 7:04 am
Forum: Polyhedron Models
Topic: Fifteenth stellation of icosahedron
Replies: 3
Views: 61353

by Ulrich
Mon Mar 05, 2012 8:02 am
Forum: Polyhedra
Topic: Icosahedon 5 compound - anyone tried making one?
Replies: 7
Views: 77476

In the case of the coplanar pairs of faces of my five-octahedra-compound I always chose one "dominating" face, which defines the colour of the common area. In my Small Snub Icosicosidodecahedron, the common areas of the overlapping triangles are coloured red, while the outer parts are yellow resp ...
by Ulrich
Mon Dec 12, 2011 7:46 am
Forum: Polyhedron Models
Topic: twisted ring
Replies: 8
Views: 91010

Peter Kane wrote:Ulrich,

These are lovely. I wish I had your eye for colour.

Pete K
Peter,

thanks! But it is stella that does the colouring automatically.

Ulrich
by Ulrich
Fri Sep 30, 2011 6:49 am
Forum: Polyhedron Models
Topic: PolyCross
Replies: 5
Views: 66470

PolyCross

Nice idea! With less symmetric shapes it can be extended to any complexity. But that would call for an electronic version.

Ulrich
by Ulrich
Mon Jan 31, 2011 1:38 pm
Forum: Stella Feature Requests
Topic: Colouring Snubs
Replies: 7
Views: 79919

I would need six colours for the pentagrams and pentagons, another ten colours for the icosahedral triangles. Would I get away with the standard five colours for the snub triangles (as if they were a hexecontahedron), or would the intersecting faces prevent that from working?

Using the system ...