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.

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.

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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 ...

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.

Sorry about that, getting hard to avoid these things.

I have updated my spam-checking stuff which might help. If it happens again let me know and I'll change it so that hi have to confirm any new members manually.

In the meantime I've deleted three new bogus members and banned their IPs.

Oh, I ...

guy wrote:Well, how saleable was yet another minesweeper program?

Nowhere near enough!

Rob.

Hey folks,

This is where a rice cracker with personality meets polyhedra. Hmm, hard to explain so just see for yourself. There's even a facebook group.

http://www.software3d.com/Home/GuineaCracker/Shapes.php



Rob.

Thanks for reporting it. I've deleted them now. Spammers seem to get through more often now than they used to, but I tend to find them and delete them within a few days. Their IP address is now banned too.

Rob.

Yes, I think a Stella Octangula is what was meant by star tetrahedron.

Another easy way to make one is to facet a cube. Enter faceting mode, with a faceting preview view open, and create a triangular facet using the three vertices that neighbour any vertex. The preview should show what you want, so ...

Gladysila, this is the wrong place to ask about Blender. This forum is for the software called Great Stella and Stella4D. I'm sure Blender must have its own forum somewhere.

Rob.

You've probably got stellationo vertices turned on too. Use Shift+V to turn those on or off (just V for the normal vertices).

Rob.

I have no plan to add hyperbolic polyhedra or tilings.

Don't really have plans to add tilings in general either, except you can already augment polyhedra together to create tilings. Well, in 3D anyway.

Rob.

Sorry, I don't follow what you mean. By black lines you mean showing edges? I can show/hide edges just fine for those models.

And what do you mean that it "deletes a Stella4D that is open"? Do you mean that if you have two running at once then the other one shuts down? Again, doesn't happen for me ...

I'm still here! It's nice to see new models being made.

Yeah that one looks like a challenge! How did you get the last piece in? I see you put a five-part section in last, but I can't imagine the concave tabs could be squashed together very easily.

If it were me, I'd probably have put a 15-part ...

Seems there is a wikipedia page on it.

It only applies to certain types of polyhedra (ones where each face has an even number of sides). But more generally, you just want to create a faceting of an existing polyhedron. You can do that with faceting mode.

See the manual and read the Faceting Mode ...