What's New on the Stella Site?

What's New?

Archive: 2014-2021 | 2012-2013 | 2007-2011 | 2005-2006 | 2003-2004 | 2001-2002

Here's a list of the main changes I've made to the website, from newest to oldest. For changes to the software, see the version history.

21st December 2013

Added a page for my new model, a 3D cross-section of the 4D great icosahedral 120-Cell.

14th December 2013

Added a page for my new model, the compound of 5 tetrahemihexahedra.

11th November 2013

My polyhedra are on display for two weeks at Fed Square in Melbourne, Australia! Click to see photos.

20th October 2013

Added a page for my new model, the compound of 5 cubes.

12th October 2013

Updated text and added new photo for my compound of 4 cubes.

7th October 2013

Updated text and added new photo for my compound of 3 cubes.

21th September 2013

Added new photo of my Leonardo-style Stella Octangula.

9th September 2013

Added photos of new models made by Michael Barltrop.

7th September 2013

Added new photo of my topological model of the small ditrigonal icosidodecahedron.

24th August 2013

MoStella Android app released!

The companion mobile app for Stella is now available! It's called MoStella and comes in 3 flavours:

MoStella Free - Platonic solids, Kepler-Poinsot and Archimedean solids.
MoStella Silver - Adds all the uniform polyhedra.
MoStella Gold - Adds stellations, compounds, Johnson solids, Stewart toroids and more.

They can display duals, and morph between polyhedra and their duals in a couple of different ways. You still need the desktop Stella to create new polyhedra or print nets, but it's nice to have all these shapes at your finger tips wherever you go!

17th August 2013

Added a page for my new paper model of the compound of icosidodecahedron and rhombic triacontahedron.

27th July 2013

Added new photo of my paper model of the compound of great stellated dodecahedron and great icosahedron.

20th July 2013

Added a page for my new paper model of the compound of dodecahedron and icosahedron.

8th July 2013

Added a page for my new paper model of the Stella Octangula, or compound of 2 tetrahedra.

29th June 2013

Added a new video showing two interlocking rings of 10 dodecahedra from within the 120-Cell rotating in 4D.

22nd June 2013

Added a page for my new paper model of the compound of 10 tetrahedra.

7th June 2013

Added a page for my new topological model of the great dodecahedron.

27nd May 2013

Added photo of new model made by Michael Barltrop.

25th May 2013

Added new photo of my rectangular isohedron.

14th May 2013

Added a page for my new model of the compound of cuboctahedron and its dual.

7th May 2013

Added a page for my new model of the compound of truncated tetrahedron and its dual.

28th April 2013

Added new photo of a stellation of the small stellated truncated dodecahedron.

24th April 2013

Added a page for my new model of the compound of 5 tetrahedra.

20th April 2013

Stella 5.3 released!
This is a free upgrade for existing Stella 5 users. See the version history for a list of all changes.

15th April 2013

Added a page for my new model of the compound of 5 octahedra.

7th April 2013

Added a page for a new model of a new noble polyhedron I discovered.

31st March 2013

Added new photos of the cubitruncated cuboctahedron.

23rd March 2013

Stella 5.2 released!
This is a free upgrade for existing Stella 5 users. See the version history for a list of all changes.

10th March 2013

Made .stel files available for my recent model of the 120-cell, and made a video about it, including a tutorial on making it using Stella4D, time-lapse construction, and animation of the parts coming together.

22nd February 2013

Finally completed all the uniform polyhedra with octahedral symmetry, having left these two rather simple ones till the end.

17th February 2013

Added a topological model of the small hexacronic icositetrahedron

2nd February 2013

Split the Miscellaneous Polyhedra page into three: Compounds, 4D Polytopes and Miscellaneous Polyhedra, each with their own subsections.
Very happy with this new 4D model based on the 120-Cell!

26th January 2013

Added some new photos of old models (click for larger).

22nd January 2013

Added photos of models made by Adam Stolicki.

10th January 2013

Added a page for a new 4D model.
Added a page for another stellation of the icosahedron.
Added some new photos of old models (click for larger).

2nd January 2013

Stella 5.1 released!
This is a free upgrade for existing Stella 5 users. See the version history for a list of all changes.

28th December 2012

Produced a new introductory video for new Stella users.

13th December 2012

Added some new photos of old models.

4th December 2012

Made a model of a 0.5 cross-section of the great stellated 120-cell. This completes my set of icosahedral cross-sections of the great stellated 120-cell, at hyperplanes passing through vertices of the polytope.

10th November 2012

Made a model of a 0.345 cross-section of the great stellated 120-cell.
Added animation of cross-sections of the great stellated 120-cell to the Screen-Shots page:

22nd October 2012

Added photo of new models made by Hamp Stevens.

21st October 2012

Added photo of new models made by David Bodoh.

7th October 2012

Uploaded new video and added to Screen-shots page:

30th September 2012

Stella 5.0 released!
This is a major upgrade with many new and improved features. See the version history for a list of all changes. There are new screen shots, and an updated manual.

Stepping through
valid facetings Animated
Transitions Polyhedral tour
(30 second animation!) Single of Double tabs Morph by tilting
to compound Geomag castle

16th September 2012

Made two more paper models, both perspective projections of 4D polytopes into 3D space.

15th September 2012

Been a while, but I'm back to creating some paper models of my own again. Here's a model of the medial triambic icosahedron / great triambic icosahedron.

9th September 2012