I think I need to reboot. Or something.
Pete K
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- Tue Dec 13, 2011 12:00 pm
- Forum: Polyhedron Models
- Topic: twisted ring
- Replies: 8
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- Sun Dec 11, 2011 12:58 pm
- Forum: Polyhedron Models
- Topic: twisted ring
- Replies: 8
- Views: 51560
- Sun Dec 11, 2011 12:54 pm
- Forum: Polyhedron Models
- Topic: Can you see what this is ?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 33805
- Sat Dec 10, 2011 7:32 pm
- Forum: Polyhedron Models
- Topic: Can you see what this is ?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 33805
Can you see what this is ?
http://i1135.photobucket.com/albums/m629/polypete/Polyhedra/IMGP0652small.jpg I'm sure that most of you saw it straight away, but it had me fooled until after I'd finished it. It is a compound of ten cubes, but I was convinced at first that it was a compound of only five - until I twigged that ther...
- Sat Oct 15, 2011 12:44 pm
- Forum: Polyhedron Models
- Topic: Yet another stellated icosahedron
- Replies: 1
- Views: 28417
Yet another stellated icosahedron
My daughter found a picture of Magnus Wenninger and his model of this polhedron on the internet. I thought I'd have a go, and here's the result: http://i1135.photobucket.com/albums/m629/polypete/Polyhedra/IMGP0637smaller.jpg The photo was taken looking down on one of the larger spikes; you can see t...
- Wed Jun 08, 2011 4:32 pm
- Forum: Stella Feature Requests
- Topic: Eliminate lighting effects
- Replies: 3
- Views: 30636
What I'm looking for is an option to maintain the same RGB values for all pixels as they move position. I don't think that this necessarily implies a monochromatic light source, but I'm no expert in this area. personally, I don't need to be able to look at a patch of colour and identify it correctly...
- Fri Jun 03, 2011 11:19 am
- Forum: Stella Feature Requests
- Topic: Eliminate lighting effects
- Replies: 3
- Views: 30636
Eliminate lighting effects
Would it be possible to turn off the lighting effects, so that colours are not changed as the polyhedron rotates ? Being red-green colourblind, I see face colours apparently change (for example, from green to yellow) as I rotate the model. I do this so that I can determine the arrangement of colours...
- Fri May 20, 2011 3:13 pm
- Forum: Polyhedron Models
- Topic: Compound of all three stellations of the Dodecahedron
- Replies: 2
- Views: 32736
- Tue Apr 19, 2011 9:14 am
- Forum: Polyhedron Models
- Topic: Model Materials
- Replies: 7
- Views: 60061
Ideally, I would like to "fuse" the faces I cut out of CDs. Since they're basically plastic I can imagine I might melt them together if I could control the temperature. I'm sure there's some kinds of glue that bonds plastics really well. What I've tried in the past have eventually turned brittle an...
- Fri Apr 15, 2011 7:47 am
- Forum: Polyhedron Models
- Topic: Model Materials
- Replies: 7
- Views: 60061
- Wed Apr 13, 2011 3:33 pm
- Forum: Polyhedron Models
- Topic: Model Materials
- Replies: 7
- Views: 60061
I just use card of various types. I did have a go using CDs after reading how easy it is to cut them with scissors...ha! I also bough a sheet of acrylic and a special saw for plastics, but the result was a mess. I've never used a dremmel; how do you use it to cut CDs ? What is the accuracy like ? Pe...
- Tue Mar 29, 2011 6:56 am
- Forum: Polyhedra
- Topic: Do you ever make polyhedra for other people?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 48786
- Fri Jan 07, 2011 9:20 am
- Forum: Polyhedron Models
- Topic: Great ditrigonal dodecicosidodecahedron
- Replies: 3
- Views: 24159
What do you use to draw the shapes of the faces prior to cutting out? Certainly the colours do look good - I've always felt that the card that I use looks a bit drab! I used Stella nets for this one. Sometimes I use a program of my own, but mostly I use Stella now. I take the Stella printouts and t...
- Tue Dec 28, 2010 1:34 pm
- Forum: Polyhedron Models
- Topic: Delicate Flower or Triffid ?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 26282
Rob, I considered fishing line too, but I didn't try it. Instead, I used some linen repair thread, because I thought it would absorb the glue better. It worked really well in experiments, and held the pieces together rigidly, but it was very fiddly when it came to stringing more than two cells toget...
- Fri Dec 24, 2010 12:57 pm
- Forum: Polyhedron Models
- Topic: Delicate Flower or Triffid ?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 26282
I started off using the method suggested by MW, i.e using half a deltahedron as a construction cradle. In fact I tried three versions of the deltahedron, each more carefully constructed than the its predecessor. I found it difficult to access the cells to apply the glue and they moved about very eas...