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Updated forum!
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robertw » Sun Jun 17, 2018 1:53 pm
Welcome to the new-look forums!
After much difficulty, I finally managed to migrate this forum from phpBB2 to phpBB3. So what does this mean?
You...
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Sun Jun 17, 2018 1:53 pm
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Stella 5.4 has been released!
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robertw » Mon May 12, 2014 2:05 pm
Stella 5.4 has been released!
It's a free upgrade for existing Stella 5 users (use Check for Software Updates Now in the Help menu if it doesn't...
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Mon May 12, 2014 2:05 pm
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Fri Nov 02, 2018 3:27 pm
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Welcome!
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robertw » Fri Jan 11, 2008 4:37 am
Welcome to the Stella forum!
This is the place to talk about Stella. Ask how to perform certain tasks, present a new technique you've discovered...
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Last post by robertw
Fri Jan 11, 2008 4:37 am
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Strange rendering anomaly in Great Stella
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Anselm » Sun Aug 07, 2022 3:47 am
If I load the Heptagrammic Cuploid in polyhedron view I see a bowl with seven sides, each side with 5 faces, and a regular heptagon as its base.
If...
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Last post by Anselm
Sun Aug 07, 2022 6:45 am
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Last post by MathCookie
Sat Jul 23, 2022 1:17 pm
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Thu Jul 21, 2022 3:59 pm
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Last post by robertw
Sat Jul 16, 2022 3:46 am
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truncated sphere
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stav242 » Tue Jun 28, 2022 3:29 pm
Is there an option to truncate/chop off part of an object ?
ie, i only want half a sphere in the output file.
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Last post by robertw
Wed Jun 29, 2022 4:31 am
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exporting obj files.
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stav242 » Tue Jun 28, 2022 2:41 pm
im tying to export to obj, with each surface defined in the obj as a component.
i get what i need when i export with `spheres and cylinders` - but i...
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Last post by stav242
Tue Jun 28, 2022 3:25 pm
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Creating compounds
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Anselm » Sun Jun 26, 2022 11:16 pm
Is there a general method of creating compounds from its components?
We have several examples of the form 'compound of n polyhedrons , eg compound...
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Last post by robertw
Mon Jun 27, 2022 2:55 am
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Some help finding a specific net?
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Philip » Thu Jun 09, 2022 10:25 am
Hello,
I'm interested in making the below polyhedra and having trouble finding the net in Great Stella. Is it correctly named?
I found what is...
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Last post by Philip
Sun Jun 12, 2022 1:14 pm
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Is the great icosahedron regular?
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Anselm » Fri Jun 10, 2022 7:48 am
The great icosahedron is a Kepler-Poinsot polyhedron and so it is supposed to be regular. Regular means one of the most symmetrical polyhedra with...
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Last post by robertw
Sun Jun 12, 2022 5:52 am
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Resizing Pyramids?
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Philip » Thu Mar 27, 2014 11:18 pm
Hi,
I can't figure out how to resize the Johnson Solid - Square Pyramid. What option do I use in the Scale menu?
Non-uniform Scale was the only one...
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Last post by Philip
Thu Jun 09, 2022 10:08 am
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Unidentified Polyhedron
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KeeganTawa » Thu May 19, 2022 4:47 pm
Hey everyone - I'm working on a project and need to identify this polyhedron.
Please ignore the dark blue regions - the polyhedron in question is...
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Last post by robertw
Fri May 20, 2022 4:22 pm
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Last post by robertw
Tue May 03, 2022 5:29 am
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Facetings of a polyhedron
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guy » Sun May 01, 2022 4:24 pm
Hi Rob,
Long time no see. Off and on I have been working on the underlying theory of polytopes, with a view to applying it to stellations and...
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Last post by guy
Mon May 02, 2022 11:35 am
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Unable to export tour as video
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melograno » Thu Apr 14, 2022 8:02 pm
Hi all,
I have gone thoroughly through FAQ and through this forum, but did not find the solution to the problem: every time I want to export the...
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Last post by melograno
Mon Apr 25, 2022 9:19 am
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Difficulty Tessellating
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KeeganTawa » Wed Apr 20, 2022 2:27 pm
Hey all -
New to the software and attempting to tessellate the truncated octahedron. I am approaching this by using the put models on faces and...
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Last post by KeeganTawa
Thu Apr 21, 2022 1:20 pm
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Last post by danielcastor
Fri Apr 01, 2022 4:47 am
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Printing scale errors
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Anselm » Sat Mar 12, 2022 11:56 pm
I am using Greta Stella to print nets on paper to be transferred to other media. I am scaling the net to a specified edge length and printing edge...
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Last post by Anselm
Mon Mar 14, 2022 2:33 am
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Last post by robertw
Sat Feb 12, 2022 5:05 am
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Circumradii
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TomF » Tue Dec 28, 2021 5:33 am
I'm rather new to polyhedron construction and have only made five of the basic stellations. Because of space considerations here at home, I've made...
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Last post by robertw
Wed Dec 29, 2021 2:58 am
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Selecting issue
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ndl » Thu Apr 01, 2021 7:54 pm
Hi,
I just got a new computer and installed Stella 4d with the same installer that I had before, but I'm having a new issue that when I try to...
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Last post by _Geometer
Wed Dec 22, 2021 8:07 pm
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Thu Dec 02, 2021 5:22 pm
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4D
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robertw » Fri Nov 12, 2021 4:51 am
Someone asked me to explain 4D, so I thought it would be better to do it here in a post for all to see.
We only have 3 spatial dimensions in our...
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Last post by Ulrich
Fri Nov 12, 2021 8:05 am
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Vertex issue -1.#IND
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Wagyx » Mon May 03, 2021 6:28 am
Hello,
I get an issue when loading some off file into Stella. The loading does not go so fine, I get the right number of vertices, edges and faces...
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Last post by Wagyx
Sat May 08, 2021 12:09 pm
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Calculating duals
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ndl » Tue Apr 13, 2021 5:12 pm
I was looking at the vertex figure of the scaliform polychoron bidex , and I noticed that when stella makes the dual it comes out a little skewed....
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Last post by ndl
Thu Apr 15, 2021 9:12 pm
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Errors with making regular-faced polyhedron
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Wagyx » Sat Mar 06, 2021 8:47 pm
Hi there,
I would like to report two issues:
- an internal error ConnectEdges(): Could not find mNeigh for edge 19-1. when loading an OFF file
- an...
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Last post by Wagyx
Thu Apr 15, 2021 8:44 am
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New Feature: 3D Printing App?
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albertpcarpenter » Sat Feb 20, 2021 4:22 am
New feature or one I am unaware of... Is it possible to export Stella files for 3D printing? If so how? If not could that be done? Albert
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Wed Feb 24, 2021 10:41 pm
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Orientation of Torus arm segments
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M&M » Sun Feb 21, 2021 2:38 pm
Hi , I’m a beginner with Great Stella, so I hope that this is not a stupid question.
Let us create a torus with 5 segments around torus and 3...
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Mon Feb 22, 2021 2:09 am
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Tue Feb 09, 2021 12:05 am
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Mon Oct 26, 2020 1:50 pm
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Mon Sep 14, 2020 3:26 am
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Last post by Jonathan Lawrence
Wed Aug 19, 2020 12:19 pm
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Last post by Jonathan Lawrence
Sat Aug 08, 2020 5:28 am
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Last post by robertw
Fri Jun 26, 2020 3:09 am
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Certain cuploids break Stella
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URL » Tue Jun 09, 2020 6:10 pm
Trying to enter a 21/10 cuploid in Stella generates a broken shape that barely resembles a cuploid. This seems to happen for all n/d cuploids with...
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Wed Jun 10, 2020 2:28 am
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Fri Apr 17, 2020 6:40 am
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How to measure Vertex Angles
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johnanthony » Thu Apr 16, 2020 11:36 am
Hello - I am a newbie here so I am afraid I will be asking quite a few questions over the next few weeks, please bear with me. :-)
My first question...
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Last post by johnanthony
Thu Apr 16, 2020 2:20 pm
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Exporting incidence relations
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nikobreu » Tue Mar 10, 2020 1:04 pm
Is there a way to export the incidence relation between the faces edges and edges vertices of a given polytope in Stella? Alternatively, is there...
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Last post by nikobreu
Thu Mar 12, 2020 12:19 pm
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Internal Parts
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hecatonicosachoron » Sun Mar 01, 2020 7:20 pm
I apologize if this question as been answered before, but I am curious how you make the internal parts seen here:
Or to pick a simpler example:...
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Last post by Ulrich
Tue Mar 03, 2020 12:31 pm
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Printing nets without edges?
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hecatonicosachoron » Thu Feb 20, 2020 11:50 pm
Hello, I recently bought Stella 4d and I am greatly enjoying it!
Is it possible to print the nets in such a way that only the vertices appear as...
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Last post by robertw
Fri Feb 21, 2020 12:00 pm
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Put a polyhedron inside another
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Carabama » Mon Jan 13, 2020 6:04 pm
Hello all,
so far I used Great Stella in a intuitive way but now I need to get images of precise polyhedron(s) inside another/others, for a lecture I...
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Fri Jan 17, 2020 2:43 pm
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Sat Dec 21, 2019 8:26 am
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4D stellations
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ndl » Sun Aug 18, 2019 4:33 am
I wanted to create 3D stellation patterns for 4D regulars, and I figured out how to do it I'm just missing one step that maybe someone would be able...
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Last post by robertw
Tue Dec 03, 2019 1:30 am
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Last post by mrjaco
Sat Oct 12, 2019 9:06 am
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4D Compounds from verf
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ndl » Tue May 14, 2019 6:49 pm
I'm having inconsistency in being able to create 4D compounds from compound verf. Sometimes it works and sometimes not even from the same verf, for...
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Last post by ndl
Tue Jun 11, 2019 3:29 am
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Non-Uniform 4D
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ndl » Mon Dec 31, 2018 4:45 am
I just got Stella4D and I'm trying to play around with it. It seems you covered pretty extensively 4D uniforms, but I had trouble trying to create...
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Last post by ndl
Thu Feb 28, 2019 2:35 am
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STL export orientation
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jweather » Mon Jan 21, 2019 7:27 pm
I just printed a lovely Snub Cube via the STL Export and my 3D printer. I'm looking for other interesting shapes to print now, and came across the...
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Last post by robertw
Wed Jan 23, 2019 5:13 am
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Coxeter Plane projections
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Benoit » Thu Jan 03, 2019 6:14 pm
Good day everyone
obviously, someone has succeeded in using Stella to produce the projection on Coxeter planes of various 4D polytopes, including...
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Last post by robertw
Tue Jan 08, 2019 2:41 am
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dividing net pieces
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Robin Adair » Sat Jan 05, 2019 11:54 pm
I'm interested in building a Crossed Heptagrammic Cupoliac Blend, Symbol: Q+ 7/5.
Some of the pieces are quite tiny! I've selected Color per face,...
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Last post by robertw
Sun Jan 06, 2019 3:04 am
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What is an InsertLine failure?
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Mulliganaceous » Thu Dec 06, 2018 8:48 am
When creating certain polyhedra which is either extremely complex or contains parts which can cause great round-off errors (such as very small angles...
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Last post by robertw
Sun Dec 09, 2018 12:25 pm
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coloring for nets
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Robin Adair » Mon Nov 26, 2018 4:42 pm
I am trying to create a model of W-58, Twelfth stellation of the icosidodecahedron. When I bring up the model in Stella 4d, the star arms are in red,...
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Last post by Robin Adair
Fri Nov 30, 2018 6:14 pm
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