See http://www.software3d.com/stella.php to download a trial or fully-functioning version of the program (Stella 4d) I used to create this rotating image of a dodecahedron. Any image can be placed on a polyhedron’s faces with this program; this one appears two posts ago, and was made using Geometer’s Sketchpad and MS-Paint.
Here’s the inverted-color version, also:
This is the dual of the figure shown in the last post.
Software used: see http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php.
In the last post, I showed that five rhombic triacontahedra can be stuck together to form a pentagonal ring. The next logical step is shown here: using such pentagonal rings to construct an entire dodecahedron made of rhombic triacontahedra.
Software credit: see http://www.software3d.com/stella.php.
Software credit: http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php.
To see what the truncated octahedron looked like before being stellated twice, and read about how it was created, I refer you to the previous post on this blog.
Stellation of polyhedra is easy with Stella 4d, a program you can try and/or buy at http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php.
The image on the squares is the same that appears two posts ago here, its color-inversion appears on the hexagons, and these were created with Geometer’s Sketchpad and MS-Paint. Projecting those images onto the larger faces of this polyhedron, and then creating this rotating .gif file, was accomplished with the use of Stella 4d, polyhedron-manipulating software you can try and/or buy at http://www.software3d.com/stella.php.
The image on the hexagons is the same that appears in the previous post here, and was created with Geometer’s Sketchpad and MS-Paint. Projecting those images onto the larger faces of this polyhedron, and then creating this rotating .gif file, was accomplished with the use of Stella 4d, polyhedron-manipulating software you can try and/or buy at http://www.software3d.com/stella.php.
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