What's New?

Archive: 2014-2025 | 2012-2013 | 2007-2011 | 2005-2006 | 2003-2004 | 2001-2002

Here's a list of the main changes I've made to the website, from newest to oldest. For changes to the software, see the version history.

29th June 2025

• It's trivial to cut an equilateral triangle into 6 congruent parts in one way, but I discovered an infinite number of ways.
  
• Made the lists of features in each version of Stella collapsible on the home page, and made text a bit bigger across the website.

21st June 2025

• Added a page for my Geomag model of a Stewart toroid
  
• Added images of my other Stewart toroid discoveries to the page for the big one I made
  

29th January 2023

• Added new photos of my paper model of the compound of 4 tetrahedra
  

29th February 2020

• Created this little puzzle: How Many Cubes?
  

14th September 2019

• Added watercolor by Kyle French
  

15th June 2019

• Added lamps and paper models by Sebastián Naccas
  
  ...and more

9th April 2019

• Added paper model of my newly discovered genus-41 Stewart toroid
  
• Added pages for new paper models of the following:

  J5. Pentagonal cupola

  J6. Pentagonal rotunda

  J63. Tridiminished icosahedron

  Drilled pentagonal rotunda

2nd January 2019

• Nothing to do with polyhedra, but I wrote some music and added links to my home page. You can play them here too:

28th December 2018

• Added a lovely quote from Jeff Walker to the Testimonials page:
  
  "A big thank you and a merry Christmas. This is the first year my 11 year old autistic son has smiled on Christmas day. Your software, a gift from Santa has made this day possible. Thank you for more than just making sure it was here but for your efforts in writing the software too. It has made a big difference in my child's life."
  
  

9th July 2018

• Massive overhaul of website! Much nicer now.

4th July 2018

• Released new geometric puzzle game Flippant:

  

30th June 2018

• Fixed all the embedded videos, most of which had stopped working.

18th June 2018

• Added new paper model of a small snub icosicosidodecahedron
  

11th June 2018

• Updated forum to phpBB3. Should make dealing with spammers easier, and hopefully easier for new users to get activated. Join the discussion at the forums.

5th May 2017

• Added new paper model of a topological dodecadodecahedron
  

30th April 2017

• Added new paper model of a compound of octahemioctahedron and 2 tetrahedra
  

25th April 2017

• Dutchpapergirl made a video tutorial about how to make the compound of 5 tetrahemihexahedra, which I've now embedded at the bottom of my page about the model.

15th April 2017

• New paper models by Keith Davison using Great Stella
  

12th March 2017

• Added new paper model of 3D Net of Cantitruncated Tesseract (308-Grit)
  

5th March 2017

• Added new paper model of small hexacronic icositetrahedron / small rhombihexacron
  

23rd February 2017

• Added new paper model expanded truncated truncated pentachoron
  

12th June 2016

• Bridges 2016 in Finland, I'll be there
  If you want to meet me and talk Stella, I'll be at the yearly Bridges conference on art & science in August 2016, Finland. Two of my paper models will be on display, and one of my short films will be screened.

26th November 2015

• Added new photos of some paper models:
  
• Added close-up photos of some paper models:
  
  
• Made a lot of images higher resolution, especially the uniform polyhedra.

22nd November 2015

• Added new photos of my paper model of the great truncated cuboctahedron
  

10th August 2015

• Added new photos of my 3D-printed genus-41 Stewart Toroid.
  

1st August 2015

• Added new photos for my paper model of a rotunda-drilled truncated icosidodecahedron
  
• Added new close-up photos for my paper model of a drilled truncated dodecahedron
  
• Added new close-up photo for my paper model of a rotunda-drilled truncated icosidodecahedron
  

6th July 2015

• Added new photo and details for my paper model of a rotunda-drilled truncated icosidodecahedron
  

19th June 2015

• New enumeration result obtained using Stella for the number of fully supported stellations of the pentagonal hexecontahedron. Turns out there are 30049378413796!
• Added number of stellations to the pages for each Platonic, Archimedean and Catalan solid.
• Added new photos of the drilled truncated cube and drilled truncated octahedron.
  

21st February 2015

• Added new photo and details for my paper model of a drilled truncated dodecahedron
  

4th February 2015

• Added new photo of my paper model of a stellated icosahedron
  

24th December 2014

• Added a montage of new photos of my paper models of three great stellated dodecahedra, each scaled by the golden ratio.
  

19th December 2014

• Added a montage of new photos of my paper models of three small stellated dodecahedra, each scaled by the golden ratio.
  

7th December 2014

• Expanded my description of uniform polyhedra to include an explanation of vertex descriptions.

24th November 2014

• Added new photo of my paper model of Miller's Monster
  

27th September 2014

• Added new photos of my compounds of 15 cuboids.
  

23rd August 2014

• Added new photos of all my Archimedean and Catalan solids.
  

4th August 2014

• Added new photo of my pseudo great rhombicuboctahedron.
  

16th June 2014

• Added new photos of my augmented great cubicuboctahedron.
  

26th May 2014

• Added some new stellation enumeration results:
  • Rhombicuboctahedron, Miller's rules stellations: 128723453647 reflexible
  • Dodecagonal deltohedron, Miller's rules stellations: 86516934850 total (793961 reflexible & 86516140889 chiral)
• Added new photo of my great rhombicuboctahedron.
  

16th May 2014

• Added new photo of my great rhombihexahedron.
  

10th May 2014

• Added Merchandise page, showing all the Stella merchandise available (calendar, mugs, mouse pads, greeting cards, posters etc).
• Stella 5.4 released!
  This is a free upgrade for existing Stella 5 users. See the version history for a list of all changes.
  

5th May 2014

• Added some new stellation enumeration results:
  • Truncated icosidodecahedron, fully supported stellations: 1016992138164 total (226575482 reflexible & 1016765562682 chiral)
  • Icosidodecahedron, Miller's rules stellations: 70841855109 total (7071672 reflexible & 70834783437 chiral)
  • Dodecagonal antiprism, Miller's rules stellations: 7662769412 reflexible

18th April 2014

• Added new photo of my great cubicuboctahedron.
  

10th March 2014

• Added new photo of my truncated tesseract.
  
• Added new photo of my truncated tesseract net.
  

26th January 2014

• Added new testimonial to quotes page.
  "I love playing around with all of the beautiful objects you include in your library - and as a game developer, mathematician, and web developer/designer I feel like I can speak from a position of authority when telling you that your UI/UX experience is AMAZING and intuitive. I hope I can one day make something as easy to use as your software :-)" - Ian Douglas
• Added new photo of my compound of 5 small stellated dodecahedra.
  

14th January 2014

• Added new photo of my compound of 5 dodecahedra.
  

1st January 2014

• I designed a polyhedral calendar which you can buy, filled with high quality photos of my paper polyhedra. You'll also find greeting cards.