First enter faceting mode, which is entered with this toolbar button: http://www.software3d.com/ScreenShots/ButtonFacetMode.gif As soon as you enter this mode (as with all modes) it will show you a description on-screen of what special operations are available in that mode: http://i225.photobucket.c...

How do I created an 18-gon from the original vertices at the top and a smaller 18-gon from the first ring of points at the top , then the lateral triangles? Use faceting mode, which is entered with this toolbar button: http://www.software3d.com/ScreenShots/ButtonFacetMode.gif While in this mode, yo...

Was the George Hart link this one? http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~cse325/GreatStella.html It still seems to work for me, but may not help you much unless you're making a fractal polyhedron. As the author of Stella, I think it's main limitation is not in its functionality but in its accessibility to new u...

Good idea. Did you notice this picture from my site? http://www.software3d.com/JPeg/Chess.jpg It's from this page: http://www.software3d.com/KingStella.php Pity we're not in 4D, as there are 6 convex regulars there! And they'd match the pieces quite well. In 3D, it's not very intuitive to me which r...

Ha, nice graphic, must have taken some time :) I've just realised that this feature is even closer to another item that's been on my to-do list for some time, the ability to grab a vertex and move it around, with other vertices of the same type moving symmetrically. If the vertex occurs in chiral pa...

Many years ago I played with something that I call "truncation rotation" Believe it or not, I've had something very similar on my to-do list for some time, but I'd never noticed the cyclic nature of the transform. I already have morph-by-truncation, so I was thinking of an extension to that where t...

...this makes me suspect that Stella's filling method may be the true filling method after all Woo hoo! :wink: I think it must be right for the most part, although I still wonder if there are any specific cases where an argument could be made for more filling. if this is the case, then we need to a...

I saw this street sign the other day and thought it was funny.



All must follow the Stella Way

Rob.

It can indeed be done in Stella, although it was a little tricky. Click here to download the .stel file Once in Stella you can print out the nets :D http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd237/RobertCWebb/Tetrahedra4C.gif Great! Can you show me how to do this with Stella? It would be interesting to se...

I mentioned elsewhere George Hart's class assignment using Great Stella to create fractal polyhedra. Well I thought I'd start a thread about making fractal polyhedra in Stella. Here are some examples, starting with George's and then some of my own: http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd237/RobertCWeb...

HOW CAN I USE DPD CONDITIONALS? HOW CAN I CONSTRUCT IF THEN ELSE STATEMENT THAT ALLOW ME THE INPUT OF DYNAMICS DATA? Er, I think you have the wrong place. I think there's some other software called Stella for some other purpose and maybe you're thinking of that. Don't post the same thing in two for...

Jabe wrote:I voted for the third one.

You sure? That's the one I voted for, but it only shows one vote

I also noticed that the polyhedra won't spin like they used to

Oh, you're right. I changed the way mouse movements were handled and I guess it caused this bug. OK, will fix sometime.

Rob.

Just released MineSweeper3D 2.5.1, with 3 new boards! Also improved the shading and colour of the countdown bars. What do people think of the new boards? Download the new version and you'll find them under the "Boards->NEW" menu (as well as appearing in their appropriate categories). And since we ha...

I wrote an article about MineSweeper3D for the Minesweeper Wiki. You can find it here:

http://www.minesweeper.info/wiki/MineSweeper3D

Aside from describing the program, there's some extra history and trivia that you won't find on my site.

Rob.

Actually filling in the gad cells completely would be like filling in the octagrams of groh completely (which we do when making models) We normally do fill it in, that's true, and you're right that we could consider them membranes. But a cross-section should then still show the regions below them a...