I made this using Stella 4d: Polyhedron Navigator. If you’d like to try this program yourself. the site to visit for a free trial download is http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php.
I stumbled across this while playing around with Stella 4d, a program you can try for free right here. The red component is the rhombic triacontahedron, while the yellow component is a slightly-stretched version of the strombic hexecontahedron. The dual of this compound is shown below.
This is a re-creation of a 2013 blog post featuring the same three characters from the original series of Star Trek, on the same polyhedron. Back then, as a less experienced blogger, I didn’t make these polyhedral images as large, and I used a much faster rotational speed, making it more difficult to see the images clearly. For both the 2013 post and this new one, I used Stella 4d: Polyhedron Navigator to create the rotating images of this solid, the great rhombicuboctahedron. If you’d like to try Stella for yourself, this is the site to visit for a free trial download.
I made this truncated version of the rhombic enneacontahedron, using faceting, with Stella 4d: Polyhedron Navigator. You can try this program for free at this website.
The crater-pictures used on the faces of this rhombic enneacontahedron come from here, and I projected them onto the rhombic faces of this polyhedron using Stella 4d: Polyhedron Navigator. If you’d like to try Stella for yourself, you can get a free trial download at this website. I blogged a similar image once before (here), but that was before I received the helpful suggestion to slow down the rotation speed of the polyhedra I post on this blog — so I decided to revisit this idea in a new post.
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