Robert,

I would be very thankful, if I could activate cells directly in the "face
view" window. Or if the lines in the stellation diagram view would indicate
the shapes of the "normal" cells of the regular faces (by another colour
or some thicker lines).
Would this be possible?

Ulrich

What are your suggestions for enhancing that feature?

Rob.

This feature acts rather arbitrarily. Depending from
the shape of the "target" face, the orientation of
the model I want to put on it is chosen automatically.
So a cube is always standing on its vertex when being
put onto a ...

There's a way to produce such models still more easily by using the
"put models on faces"-function (a feature which could be enhanced
a lot). The picture shows the core of 30 intersecting 360-fold prisms.

http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh82/Heinzzweidrei/str_hex_360_prism_core.jpg

To ...

Hi Ulrich,

> This is the core of six intersecting cylinders (displayed like
> 60-fold prisms).

Maybe you'd consider writing a post about it and how to create it on the
Stella forum? I'm sure others would be interested.

Thanks,
Rob.
It's quickly made: Take a 60-fold prism and facet 5-fold ...

The snub colouring mode could be a small procedure of several steps.
In a first step you give colours to the dodecahedral and icosahedral
faces. In the second step, the faces adjacent to an icosahedral one
get the same colour like this one has. In a third step, the icosahedral
faces get new ...

Stella has some great features to do the colour arrangements for e.g. dodecahedral or icosahedral symmetries.
If you try to colour the snub triangles in a snub model in a regular way with only a few colours, (see:

. http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh82/Heinzzweidrei/SnubDodeca_ColourArrangement ...

Thanks! Fairies are welcome in my garden.

are you able to make your figures rotate in the stella program, with the top tetragon rotating in the opposite direction from the bottom tetragon both in the same display?
No, I can't do so. I have to make some detours like I described before to get this visible.

But
Someday I'll get around to ...

for a merkaba (sacred tetrahedron), or the one i like even better, the octahedron, to function as it is supposed to -- then the top half of the figure must be set to spinning or turning on the vertical axis, and the bottom half must be set to spinning on the same vertical axis but in the opposite ...

Ulrich, would you please tell me how? i really want to know this.
It is a series of 20 images which I exported from stella. As Robert says, I created 20 different models, starting from a 60-fold prism. By faceting, I got 20 3-fold prisms from it which I trimmed to the proper height which is the ...

3katie3 wrote:did you make that with the stella program?

Yes, I created the images with stella.

can you make it rotate, the top spinning opposite to the bottom?

This should be possible too, but it's not that easy with stella if you don't use parallel planes.

Ulrich

3katie3 wrote:that's because you weren't spinning it properly.

Perhaps you should spin it like that:



Ulrich

Alex Doskey wrote: The hard part was modeling them before you could import OFF files. It took quite some effort.

Alex,

do you still remember how you did it and could you explain it?

Ulrich

I did it by augmenting an 8-fold antiprism by icosahedra. Then I faceted new icosahedra, taking care that two neighboured ones use the same set of vertices of the triangle they are both connected to.

http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh82/Heinzzweidrei/ring_icosa_8_fac.jpg

This results in ...

Hi Rex,

it is not that difficult to create this in Stella without any geometrical knowledge:

http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh82/Heinzzweidrei/ring_icosa_8_2_mono_k.jpg

These are the measures:

http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh82/Heinzzweidrei/ring_icosa_8_2_mono_net_k.jpg

To get an ...