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- Fri Aug 21, 2015 9:32 am
- Forum: Stella Feature Requests
- Topic: Plane tilings
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- Views: 18680
Plane tilings
Would it be possible for Stella to explore plane tilings as well as polyhedra? There seem to be two approaches to tiling: Symmetries (e.g. kaleidoscopes) in the plane can generate tilings, much as spherical ones generate polyhedra. There are even some "dense" or overlapping tilings analogous to star...
- Fri Aug 21, 2015 8:48 am
- Forum: Stella Forum
- Topic: How does Stella4D determine the dual?
- Replies: 31
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First, please could you shrink that huge screenshot? It is vastly bigger than my poor screen and makes all the text shoot off to the right. Duality of polyhedra exists at several different levels. Sometimes, a polyhedron will have a dual at one level but not at another. Combinatorial or abstract dua...
- Thu Aug 13, 2015 7:16 pm
- Forum: Polyhedra
- Topic: Archimedean polyhedra with missing faces
- Replies: 1
- Views: 13795
I do not think there is any serious mathematical approach to them, they are just symmetrical shapes which look a bit like polyhedra and have the same symmetries. Technically they are finite bounded manifolds whose boundary is disjoint, but that applies to anything with holes punched through its surf...
- Thu Jul 23, 2015 8:14 pm
- Forum: Stella Feature Requests
- Topic: Truncation of Polyhedra
- Replies: 1
- Views: 8809
Hi Rob, 'Fraid I am still firmly wedded to Linux and can't be ***ed with WINE so my copy of Stella is equally firmly parked for the foreseeable. I would think that all the basic operations one encounters - truncation, bevelling, runcination, etc. - would be worth implementing, if only to help us lea...
- Mon Jul 06, 2015 7:20 pm
- Forum: Stella Forum
- Topic: N-gonal pyramids
- Replies: 2
- Views: 12022
Of course, a 20-sided pyramid with something like a {20/9} star icosagon base can have equilateral sides. In general, for an {n/m}star base, n/m < 6 will allow a uniform star pyramid. Also, n and m must be co-prime (no common factor) or you get a compound, and m < n/2 or you get a backward duplicate...
- Thu Nov 06, 2014 1:50 pm
- Forum: Stella Forum
- Topic: Equilateral convex polyhedra (new class after 400 years?)
- Replies: 27
- Views: 83056
Certainly some polyhedra can't be given equal edge lengths unless they lose their convexity, like many of the duals of the Archimedean solids. Yes of course, all those funny groupings of triangles round a vertex for a start. Something like a heptagonal pyramid requires its equilateral morph to be w...
- Tue Nov 04, 2014 8:42 pm
- Forum: Stella Forum
- Topic: Equilateral convex polyhedra (new class after 400 years?)
- Replies: 27
- Views: 83056
- Sun Nov 02, 2014 3:32 pm
- Forum: Stella Forum
- Topic: Equilateral convex polyhedra (new class after 400 years?)
- Replies: 27
- Views: 83056
- Sat Nov 01, 2014 6:48 pm
- Forum: Stella Forum
- Topic: Equilateral convex polyhedra (new class after 400 years?)
- Replies: 27
- Views: 83056
I also need a way to ... maybe even to generate Goldbergs with equal edge lengths as per the paper. I think that will require the solution of multiple simultaneous equations, there are no shortcuts for such arbitrary metric equalities in projective reciprocation. Can one even assume that all the ve...
- Sat Nov 01, 2014 6:37 pm
- Forum: Stella Forum
- Topic: Equilateral convex polyhedra (new class after 400 years?)
- Replies: 27
- Views: 83056
Well Goldberg was interested in cages, and probably not interested in flat faces, because he was looking at molecular arrangements. I think these guys just realised, while doing the same thing, that they could expand this to say something interesting about polyhedra, as an aside to their molecular ...
- Thu Oct 30, 2014 8:40 pm
- Forum: Stella Forum
- Topic: Equilateral convex polyhedra (new class after 400 years?)
- Replies: 27
- Views: 83056
Hi Robert, Yes, I think your remarks about the other types of equilateral polyhedron are spot on. I don't think I have yet found two equivalent definitions of a Goldberg polyhedron. One would have to go back and read Goldberg's original papers and see how rigorous he was - probably no more so than t...
- Sat Oct 05, 2013 7:08 pm
- Forum: Polyhedra
- Topic: Groupe Facebook
- Replies: 6
- Views: 14942
- Tue Aug 27, 2013 1:56 pm
- Forum: Stella Forum
- Topic: Can Anybody Help Me Make A Moravian Star Please?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 56645
- Sun Aug 04, 2013 1:52 pm
- Forum: Stella Forum
- Topic: Can Anybody Help Me Make A Moravian Star Please?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 56645
Yes, you are right. I think "rectify" may be the operation of blending the polyhedron with its dual, I can't remember if that is the right word. It certainly gives a more accurate model (and nicer) than truncation. And yes it is augmentation not stellation. There might well be a convex core that can...
- Sat Aug 03, 2013 7:12 pm
- Forum: Stella Forum
- Topic: Can Anybody Help Me Make A Moravian Star Please?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 56645
I estimate around 48 points, by: counting all the points in its outline, adding all the visible points within its outline, then assuming that the same number are hidden round the back. So it might well be the 50-point Moravian star - for hints on its construction, see for example http://en.wikipedia...