Strange, but I like it!

I made some models with parts only connected at the vertices.I did that with a drop of „UHU hart“ which is a very quickly drying glue. I held each two pieces together and counted to 100, which was sufficient to keep them in place.

Ulrich

https://i.postimg.cc/HcGJFC81/769-D5808-A5-FA-4930-996-D-D4 ...

Yes, indeed

After four years I finally finished W116:



I started W117 and hope that it will take less time to get it done.

Ulrich

No, that can‘t be done. I tried it some years ago, using the function „try to make faces regular“ and it failed.

Ulrich

It can also be done easily by putting an octahedron into a memory and excavating the cuboctahedron from there.

I had this bug too and I think I fixed it the following way (Notebook with Intel and Nvidia grafic card):

right-click on desktop, Nvidia settings, 3d settings, program settings, add Stella4D, triple buffer: on, save settings.

After that all face selects in Stella4D were ok.

Ulrich

This is another noble polyhedron model which I call Red Mambahedron. It‘s the right one in the second row of plate 25 in Brückner‘s 1906 book.

Ulrich

IMHO everyone who isn‘t happy with Stella4D as it is is warmly invited to write his/her own program that has all desired features.

Ulrich

You just need a device that can print it with an edge length of 1 m or so and with 40 colours and an algorithm that can display the patterns in the faces.

Here is my first try of a paper version of one of your models: O32b_2. I made it because it is very pretty and because there are only 12 rhombs crossing each other. In my physical models I want to display the inner structure. Here I had to construct pyramidal building blocs with their top vertices ...

I‘d love to have Leonardo-style shapes of them because the understanding is much better, so please post off-files of them too.

Don Romano from Denver asked me to thank you on his behalf for the great work and inspiration. He immediately started to build a paper model of the first one in your list ...

This is great! Thanks for sharing.

Ulrich

It's the final stellation of the truncated cuboctahedron. You choose face type 3 and stellate it to the end.



Ulrich

You activate the stellation view, hit on "End" and click on the litle green left-down-arrow.