Sounds like the paper is too thin and/or the glue too watery. Depending on the ink, different glues have different effects on the lines. I use a thick art paper or even thin card, and a non-water-based quick-drying glue such as Bostik. But I have to be careful with laser printers, because Bostik dis...

Rob, doesn't Stella offer svg vector output for nets and perspectives? These can be displayed directly in any modern web browser, or printed off, and crucially at any scale without loss of detail. They are even cross-platform. Sorry I can't check my own copy, I no longer run Windows and am not yet c...

Lovely! It reminds me of the rocket in the Tintin story, "Destination Moon".

robertw wrote:Not sure how saleable another maze program would be though!

Well, how saleable was yet another minesweeper program?

Yes, there are many such polyhedra, known as deltahedra. See for example the Wikipedia
Deltahedron article.

According to Wenninger, there are 30 pairs of squares. They are diametral or "hemi" faces, so there is no parallel pair. To colour each pair differently would need 30 colours. That makes 6+10+30=46 colours in all. Ouch! Wenninger describes a simpler colour scheme. He uses a simplified set of 5 colou...

Hi, those are beautiful. I wish you all success. What about offering other shapes, such as the stella octangula, rhombic dodecahedron and maybe even small stellated dodecahedron? I have a large-ish model of a small stellated dodecahedron made of shiny golden card that I bring out every Christmas: ju...

I once gave away a great stellated dodecahedron - once I pointed out the pentagonal star faces, my neighbour was fascinated by it.

Am I right in thinking that what you want is to make each facet as a thick slab with sides cut at the correct angle so they can all glue together with no gaps?
Last time I knew anybody do this, they just had to take the data that Great Stella gave them, and hack the rest manually.

One thing that should be straight forward would be to mark the angles at the ends of tabs. For two-tab people, that's all they'd really need. For us one-tab people, there's always tomorrow.

I saw something along these lines at the Bridges Conference, London 2006. Sorry I can't remember who was giving the presentation, so not much help really.

3katie3 wrote:i'll have to try again.

That didn't display in my browser for some reason, so here it is again:

While I have little knowledge of "sacred geometry" as a discipline, it seems to me that different teachings, cultures, disciplines, cults, sects, religions, whatever, have different figures which they regard as sacred. For example the Pythagoreans had their pentagram. Do you have any particular teac...

ISTR that these two are duals of each other. So you need only load one and view its dual to get both.

The trick should work for any number of sides above 3. Just divide the polygon into two or more pieces, and then add the whole polygon.

What an amazing application of Stella and facetting! Has anybody made a garment from the yarn yet? And will it be woven or knitted?