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I have split this topic up, as it went off-topic. The posts that have moved are now in a new thread for discussion of cube compounds here: http://software3d.com/Forums/viewtopic.php?t=45 . You'll have to subscribe to that thread again if you wish to be notified of new posts. Book-wise, I think I rem...

I noticed it contained 8 files more than before. I didn't check which files were extra. Don't know what it means, but here are the extra files: C6_E_6.eg.off D12xI_C3_16.eg.off D18D9_D3C3_6.off D1xI_C2C1_2.eg.off D2D1_D1C1_2.eg.off D6_E_12.eg.off D6C6_E_12.eg.off D9xI_C3_12.eg.off Mean anything to ...

Should I post a similar series on the compounds of ten :?: :wink: George has indeed continued his series for the compounds of ten regular polychora, but I have split this into a new topic. You can find that new topic here: http://www.software3d.com/Forums/viewtopic.php?t=44 If you were watching thi...

I most models I don't use tabs - I glue edge to edge. I'm amazed this works. It always seems like such models would fall apart far more easily, and that excess glue would be a problem on the outside of the model. But you've made models far more complex than mine, so I guess it must work! Can you te...

Oops, I meant the dual of the truncated cuboctahedron. It's faces come in two types which are reflections of each other. Standard auto-colouring means that Stella will colour by face-type, unless the model is a compound, then it is coloured as a compound instead. Use "Color->Basic Color Scheme->Colo...

By "face type" I refer not just to face shape, but also to how the face fits into the symmetry of the overall model. For example, the snub cube contains two different triangular face types. Both are equilateral, but one connects to three other triangles at its edges, and the other connects to two tr...

Perhaps it is just you

You'll find it as "Stella Library->Geodesic Hemispheres->4-Frequency Icosahedral Geodesic Hemisphere" (either using the model drop-downs, or the tree in Ctrl+N).

Rob.

Thanks Marcel! I tried them, and the OFF files seem to open easily in Stella. along with their nets. All 357 could all be loaded, but Stella failed to create nets for 5 of them, claiming possible accuracy errors, but who knows. I'll have a look sometime and see if I can shed any light on it. The eas...

robertw wrote:Does it tell you when you win?

Ah, it does now. Just had another look. I find it hard to navigate, but otherwise it seems to work OK. Are you planning to do much more to it?

Rob.

Hey Magnus, great to have you onboard :D How should the last piece be put in. This is also very tricky. For W34 I leave tabs all around the bottom of the five-facet nets, all of one color or of five different colors. The long spikes are all closed, and these are not too difficult to glue together by...

marcelteun wrote:For me the model with the most amount of faces would be a fractal kinda octahedron. It counts 1728 faces and funnily enough it belongs to the smallest models I built.

Looks like the edges would all be about 0.5 cms long, is that right? Sounds pretty fidgety to me!

Rob.

Material - Oh yes, forgot about material. I have mostly used 120 gsm paper. Tried 160 gsm once, but found it just slightly too thick. The weight doesn't directly map to thickness necessarily though, and now I use a new paper I discovered. 140 gsm, and acid free, so presumably the colours won't fade...

The most complex model I made is the uniform compound of 5 great rhombicubeoctahedra (W85). Yeah, it looks great (already makes an appearance on my Stella Users' Models page along with some of your other constructions). Good to have you on board Piotr :D You and others reading this topic might also...

Just wandering what techniques other model-makers use. Scoring edges - I use a metal ruler and a doll-making needle (a needle about 18 cms long). Scissors/knife? - I use scissors. I get the feeling many people use a knife, but I find scissors more convenient and faster. If you leave tabs on every ed...