Resize individual polyhedra in a compound
Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2011 1:15 pm
I recently stumbled upon the trial version of Stella4d, and currently I'm trying things out to get aquanted with the GUI. In a few days time, I intend to purchase the full version and am very impressed by what I've seen so far.
Having browsed through the site, I can't seem to find much information on this subject, so thought I would ask here in case someone knows the answer.
At the moment I am playing around adding things to memory, then merging those objects together to form compounds. What I would like to do is to rescale one of those objects in the merge.
For instance, I add an icosahedron to memory, and then merge with an octahedron. In the resultant compound, the octahedron is too small. The effect is amplified if I make a base/dual compound - the cube is too big, and the vertex points of the dodecahedron are barely visible.
How would I resize the octahedron in the original compound?
Presumably, I could then add this new base/dual compound to memory, and merge with a tetrahedron to produce a compound of all the five platonic solids.
Twi
Having browsed through the site, I can't seem to find much information on this subject, so thought I would ask here in case someone knows the answer.
At the moment I am playing around adding things to memory, then merging those objects together to form compounds. What I would like to do is to rescale one of those objects in the merge.
For instance, I add an icosahedron to memory, and then merge with an octahedron. In the resultant compound, the octahedron is too small. The effect is amplified if I make a base/dual compound - the cube is too big, and the vertex points of the dodecahedron are barely visible.
How would I resize the octahedron in the original compound?
Presumably, I could then add this new base/dual compound to memory, and merge with a tetrahedron to produce a compound of all the five platonic solids.
Twi