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- Tue Jan 17, 2023 11:00 pm
- Forum: Stella Forum
- Topic: Extra parts for the compound of five squares
- Replies: 4
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Re: Extra parts for the compound of five squares
One more question if you don't mind. How did you produce the net in your post? When I pull up W102 in Great Stella, it produces this figure and net: https://i.postimg.cc/9z4Rp5M2/Great-Dodecahemidodeca.gif https://i.postimg.cc/sMzMsMJf/Great-Dodecahemidodeca2.gif I can use this of course, but the on...
- Tue Jan 17, 2023 3:16 am
- Forum: Stella Forum
- Topic: Extra parts for the compound of five squares
- Replies: 4
- Views: 15317
Re: Extra parts for the compound of five squares
Thank you, Robert. You're absolutely right. I should have said cubes instead of squares. That will teach me to violate my rule of never posting anything after dinner. I'll give your suggestions a try ASAP. I particularly like the first one. I would never have thought of that approach and it shows ho...
- Sun Jan 15, 2023 5:44 am
- Forum: Stella Forum
- Topic: Extra parts for the compound of five squares
- Replies: 4
- Views: 15317
Extra parts for the compound of five squares
I have the feeling the I'm asking a stupid question, but here goes. I'm making a compound of five squares and am following the suggestions in the gallery. I've made the twelve components of that figure without difficulty, but am struggling to understand how to make the star-shaped extra parts that a...
- Tue Aug 23, 2022 10:12 pm
- Forum: Stella Forum
- Topic: Stepping through stellations
- Replies: 1
- Views: 13070
Stepping through stellations
It's easy enough to step through the stellations of a base figure one at a time in Great Stella, but is it possible to move through them more quickly? For example, is it possible to jump ahead in the succession of stellations 20 or 30 or more? Or to go straight to the the 80th one? For figures with ...
- Fri Feb 11, 2022 4:40 am
- Forum: Stella Forum
- Topic: Mimicking the Wenninger Color Combinations with Great Stella
- Replies: 1
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Mimicking the Wenninger Color Combinations with Great Stella
I've only made 12 polyhedra so far, all of them using the directions in Polyhedron Models. I've decided that I like his coloring choices. Maybe I'm just missing something obvious, but the color patterns that I've been able to get in Great Stella seem to emulate Wenninger's. Is there some simple way ...
- Fri Jan 14, 2022 9:27 pm
- Forum: Polyhedra
- Topic: Possible Wenninger Erratum
- Replies: 3
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Possible Wenninger Erratum
I just completed a model of the great icosahedron using the directions in Polyhedron Models. There appears to be a mistake in line (2) of the color table. It reads OY BO GB R B YR when it should read OY BO GB R G YR. The only copy of the book that I have is a first paperback edition, so I don't know...
- Tue Dec 28, 2021 8:16 pm
- Forum: Stella Forum
- Topic: Circumradii
- Replies: 3
- Views: 15880
Re: Circumradii
Thanks so much for this information, Robert. I’m afraid I have a lot of egg on my face with this one. I’ve made two of each of my polyhedra, one for myself and one for my granddaughter, age two. She is fascinated by them and has them hanging from the ceiling in her bedroom. (She refers to all six of...
- Tue Dec 28, 2021 5:33 am
- Forum: Stella Forum
- Topic: Circumradii
- Replies: 3
- Views: 15880
Circumradii
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 all of them with the same circumradius, 34.5 cm. I made the calculations for the nets by hand, and the results have been just what I wanted. Now that I'...