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Updated forum!
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robertw » Sun Jun 17, 2018 1:53 pm
Welcome to the new-look forums!
After much difficulty, I finally managed to migrate this forum from phpBB2 to phpBB3. So what does this mean?
You...
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Stella 5.4 has been released!
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robertw » Mon May 12, 2014 2:05 pm
Stella 5.4 has been released!
It's a free upgrade for existing Stella 5 users (use Check for Software Updates Now in the Help menu if it doesn't...
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Mon May 12, 2014 2:05 pm
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Fri Nov 02, 2018 3:27 pm
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Welcome!
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robertw » Fri Jan 11, 2008 4:37 am
Welcome to the Stella forum!
This is the place to talk about Stella. Ask how to perform certain tasks, present a new technique you've discovered...
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Fri Jan 11, 2008 4:37 am
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Last post by indigotwilight
Mon Jun 20, 2011 2:06 pm
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mac
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daniela » Sun Jun 19, 2011 1:57 pm
Did someone already try to use Stella on a Mac? With Parallels or BootCamp? Please let me know. Daniela
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Last post by indigotwilight
Mon Jun 20, 2011 11:20 am
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Just written my first OFF file
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indigotwilight » Fri May 27, 2011 5:42 pm
I took a moment to learn the .OFF file format, and decided to 'write' my own polyhedron model.
It's a sort of octagrammic bipyramid. Might be useful...
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Last post by indigotwilight
Fri May 27, 2011 5:42 pm
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Last post by robertw
Thu Apr 07, 2011 1:21 pm
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Couldn't find exit edge
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daniela » Thu Mar 03, 2011 7:08 pm
So says Stella when I try to open a model that I have imported, and that it has been exported from javaview.
can someone tell me the problem? Or...
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Last post by daniela
Fri Mar 04, 2011 1:56 pm
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Last post by jbuddenh
Wed Jan 19, 2011 9:36 pm
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Help with Colours
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Peter Kane » Fri Aug 27, 2010 3:56 pm
I'm trying to work out the colour scheme (map) for the great ditrigonal dodecicosidodecahedron (MW 81). I tried viewing the model in Stella after...
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Last post by oxenholme
Thu Dec 30, 2010 6:43 pm
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missing file button
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MiloJacquet » Sun Oct 03, 2010 10:04 pm
Hi Rob
I found a new file. I don't know what it's called. But inside, I can make right pyramids,irregular tetrahedra, podiums, antipodiums, tori,...
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Last post by MiloJacquet
Sun Oct 03, 2010 10:04 pm
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Stella image in New York Review of Books
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robertw » Mon Apr 12, 2010 2:41 pm
Hey guys,
An image of the tesseract (4D cube) made using Stella4D has just appeared in an article in the New York Review of Books. You can see it...
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Last post by guy
Sat Jun 12, 2010 8:00 pm
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Flexagons
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kk6pr » Sat Apr 10, 2010 5:57 am
Anyone here know what these are? And if it's possible to make nets for them in Stella 4D?
If you don't know what I'm talking about - google it. Try...
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Mon Apr 12, 2010 2:38 pm
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Last post by faiskeoadave
Mon Jan 18, 2010 1:02 pm
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star tetrahedron
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zeneteru » Wed Dec 30, 2009 9:57 am
hi im looking for a star tetrahedron net, any ideas?
thanks.
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Last post by robertw
Mon Jan 04, 2010 1:17 pm
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Stewart toroids
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MiloJacquet » Sat Nov 28, 2009 6:15 pm
Hi Rob.
I've discovered a new stewart toroid!
Basicly K5 / 12Q5 S5 (E5) + 20 (R5 / S5 Q5)
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Last post by MiloJacquet
Sat Nov 28, 2009 6:15 pm
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Vertices
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MiloJacquet » Thu Nov 26, 2009 1:56 am
Hi Rob.
My vertices will not go off. I've tried clicking the vertex button. It will not go off. What should I do?
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Last post by robertw
Sat Nov 28, 2009 10:48 am
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Last post by robertw
Mon Nov 09, 2009 9:48 am
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Császár and Szilassi Polyhedra
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Nordehylop » Thu May 29, 2008 9:49 pm
How would one get the Császár and Szilassi Polyhedra in stella? They are two polyhedra that I would like to build for my dad for Father's day. The...
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Last post by Alex Doskey
Thu Nov 05, 2009 4:52 pm
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Stewart toroids
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MiloJacquet » Tue Nov 03, 2009 2:31 am
Hi Rob.
You know the black lines that I can put on a lot of polyhedra? I can't put those lines on the rotunda drilled truncated icosidodecahedron...
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Last post by robertw
Tue Nov 03, 2009 8:21 am
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Last post by robertw
Wed Oct 28, 2009 12:48 pm
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pentachoron and icositetrachoron
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perrin » Wed Sep 23, 2009 2:56 am
I am having a problem with stella.
When I want to see a pentachoron* I only see a tetrahedron. Same with
the tesseract. The icositetrachoron** only...
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Last post by Jabe
Thu Oct 15, 2009 12:47 pm
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missing toolbar ?
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perrin » Sat Sep 12, 2009 6:57 pm
Hi. My nephew (2nd grade) LOVES stella4d (he is using it for a class project)
However, he has managed to misplace the view-type toolbar. Even when I...
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Last post by perrin
Wed Sep 16, 2009 5:42 am
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Last post by robertw
Tue Aug 18, 2009 2:09 pm
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Coordinates of vertices
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murkle » Sun Jul 12, 2009 7:04 am
Hi,
Is there a way to export the coordinates of the vertices from any of the Stella programs eg to a text file or clipboard?
thanks!
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Last post by robertw
Mon Jul 13, 2009 10:59 am
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Facet vertex angles and sizes
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RTChoke » Fri Jun 26, 2009 7:38 pm
I just purchased the Stella4D program, have been fooling around with the demo version for a week or so. Very neat stuff.
Anyway, what I am going to...
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Last post by RTChoke
Thu Jul 09, 2009 3:22 pm
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Ping Dinogeorge
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the_tool_man » Thu May 07, 2009 1:46 pm
I've been browsing the threads, and run across several of Dinogeorge's postings that reportedly had some fantastic images. He hosted them on AOL...
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Last post by robertw
Thu Jun 11, 2009 11:46 am
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Polyhedron scaling behavior
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the_tool_man » Thu May 07, 2009 1:26 pm
Hi all:
I'm relatively new to Great Stella, and have begun making some models; the Platonics and some of the Archemedians. I want them all roughly...
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Last post by the_tool_man
Mon Jun 01, 2009 8:53 pm
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export to dxf
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bobcdy » Sat Mar 21, 2009 3:39 pm
I'm new to Stella 4D, but am impressed with the quality of the program. I have one question so far. I exported a polyhedron as dxf for use in my...
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Last post by bobcdy
Tue Mar 24, 2009 8:14 pm
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Some JS allow "U" keypress
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polymorphic » Sat Jan 31, 2009 6:23 pm
I don't see this as a problem but some of the Johnson solids allow Create Unform Polychoron from 3D vertex figure . Not a lot of them but a few. They...
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Last post by robertw
Sun Feb 22, 2009 1:10 pm
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"Open-Faced" Polyhedra
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Nordehylop » Tue Feb 10, 2009 7:10 pm
A few months ago I designed and built two models of polyhedral stellations with sections cut away from their faces (so that only the true edges of...
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Last post by robertw
Sun Feb 22, 2009 12:55 pm
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11-cell
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polymorphic » Thu Jan 29, 2009 2:16 pm
Hi,
The 11-cell or hendecachoron is 11 hemi-icosahedra. I have a hemi-icosahedra (OFF file below). I was wondering if the 11-cell might be...
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Last post by polymorphic
Sun Feb 08, 2009 12:50 pm
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Powertopes
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Jabe » Wed Feb 04, 2009 11:35 pm
If we take the square of a polygon, we get a duoprism of that polygon - and this is the beginning of powertopes. Powertopes are the result of taking...
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Last post by Jabe
Wed Feb 04, 2009 11:35 pm
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Last post by jbuddenh
Sat Jan 24, 2009 2:45 pm
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Thirteen Sided Dice
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Jabe » Wed Jan 14, 2009 11:03 pm
Recently I rendered the three possible cell-transitive tridecachora using Off files and Stella4D. I started by using the thirteen vertices of their...
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Last post by Jabe
Wed Jan 14, 2009 11:03 pm
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Christmas polyhedra?
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robertw » Sat Dec 06, 2008 12:20 am
With Christmas coming up, I thought I'd start a thread for Christmas polyhedra. Below is one I made using Stella last year. So make your own...
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Last post by Ulrich
Tue Dec 09, 2008 11:08 am
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intersecting cylinders
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Ulrich » Fri Oct 31, 2008 10:00 am
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...
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Last post by Ulrich
Thu Nov 27, 2008 3:34 pm
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Hendecachoron
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Hodge » Tue Nov 11, 2008 4:43 pm
I seek a .stel or.off file for the hendecachoron, which I have not seen in the Stella4D library. Does anyone have such a file?
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Last post by Hodge
Tue Nov 11, 2008 4:43 pm
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X Extension
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Orangery » Thu Oct 30, 2008 6:08 pm
I have been going through some old files (3d polyhedrons) that were saved with an .x extension. I thought they were produced using the 'Small Stella'...
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Last post by Orangery
Sat Nov 01, 2008 9:45 am
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polyhedron radius
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polymorphic » Mon Oct 13, 2008 6:42 pm
Hi Rob,
It appears the value you give for a polyhedra radius is the maximum distance between centroid and the vertices.
Is this the excepted...
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Last post by robertw
Wed Oct 15, 2008 9:11 am
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More 4D compounds now available
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Dinogeorge » Sun Jan 13, 2008 7:21 am
I was playing with Stella4D version 4.4 and was pleased to discover that it will now construct the 4D compounds of ten 600-cells and ten grand...
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Last post by 3katie3
Tue Aug 26, 2008 8:05 pm
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"Stella Models" paper now online
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robertw » Sat Aug 02, 2008 4:50 am
I finally got around to getting my 2004 paper Stella Models online. Here's the link:
It was published in Symmetry: Culture and Science , Vol. 13,...
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Last post by oxenholme
Fri Aug 15, 2008 7:25 am
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Stella reviewed in PC Plus magazine!
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robertw » Fri Jul 25, 2008 1:47 pm
Hey, exciting news!
Mike Bedford wrote a review of Great Stella in PC Plus magazine ! It's in issue 271, August 2008, p46-47.
A couple of quotes:...
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Last post by robertw
Fri Jul 25, 2008 1:47 pm
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Nice trick when faceting!
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by
Woolalan » Thu Jul 10, 2008 7:41 pm
Sometimes when faceting in Great Stella, I've wanted to have a plane saved in the faceted polyhedron - not just where it cuts a solid volume, but...
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Last post by Woolalan
Sun Jul 13, 2008 7:11 pm
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I Just Can't Cut It!
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RexEveryhting » Sun Jul 06, 2008 6:36 am
I found the model I want to work with in the More Stewart Toroids folder. It's called the Icosahedra 8 (ring)....
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Last post by RexEveryhting
Fri Jul 11, 2008 8:02 pm
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Hi! I'm Rex Everyhting!
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RexEveryhting » Sun Jul 06, 2008 6:35 am
I'm new here and I had a question, accompanied by images, but it turns out the forum is set up to disallow URLs until after ypou have at least one...
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Last post by RexEveryhting
Mon Jul 07, 2008 9:08 pm
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Mitre Angle
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Larry » Sat Jul 05, 2008 2:32 pm
Something that has nagged at me since I first viewed V3.4 is the use of the term “mitre angle” as seen when viewing “Nets\Show Edge Data\Mitre...
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Last post by guy
Mon Jul 07, 2008 7:35 pm
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Miter Vs Bevel
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Larry » Mon Jul 07, 2008 12:28 pm
In response to your posting Mr. Webb, yes I would like to see Mitre changed to Bevel . The following is in respose to the posting by os2fan2.
As...
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Last post by Larry
Mon Jul 07, 2008 12:28 pm
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did you know these?
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dysphras » Thu Jun 12, 2008 8:52 am
Slice (at 0.5) a 5-Hi (120-cell) with a hyperplane direction cell-1st. Do the same to a 6-Ex (600-cell), same depth but direction vertex-1st this...
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Last post by dysphras
Thu Jun 12, 2008 8:52 am
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non-tetrahedrizable polyhedron
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dysphras » Wed Jun 11, 2008 10:52 am
Hi everybody,
Here are the coordinates for the celebrated *Schonhardt's non- tetrahedrizable polyhedron*. Please copy the following in *txt* format,...
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Last post by dysphras
Thu Jun 12, 2008 8:29 am
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VRML files
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Nordehylop » Thu May 29, 2008 10:10 pm
Is it possible to import VRML files into stella? Or is there a roundabout way of doing it, such as importing VRML files into a different program and...
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Last post by Nordehylop
Thu May 29, 2008 10:10 pm
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Book on Stella
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Squeaky » Wed May 07, 2008 6:46 am
Hi Everybody,
I am finding great difficulty in actually using Stella to build my own shapes.
Ulrich has been very kindly helping me create a model...
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Last post by Squeaky
Thu May 08, 2008 9:02 am
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Filling cross-sections
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robertw » Tue Apr 01, 2008 1:35 pm
Hi Jonathan B (aka Jabe on this forum) and anyone interested in how to fill polytopes.
You wrote on your site ( ):
Robert Webb, the designer of...
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Thu May 01, 2008 6:18 am
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