The images shown on the faces of these dodecahedra appeared in the last post, and were made using Geometer’s Sketchpad and MS-Paint.
Assembling the polyhedral images and creating these rotating .gif files required another program, Stella 4d, which is available at http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php.
Some polyhedral compounds are well-known, such as the compound of five cubes, while others are less famous. I had never heard of this compound before building one today (virtually, not as a physical model). However, a quick Google-search told me that I was not the first person to discover it.
Software credit: see http://www.software3d.com/stella.php to try or buy Stella 4d, the software I used to create this image.
This was made by the augmentation of an icosahedron, using snub dodecahedra on each of its twenty faces. I used software available at http://www.software3d.com/stella.php.
Software credit: see http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php — free trial download available.
This was created by augmenting a great dodecahedron with more great dodecahedra, and then augmenting the result with even more of them.
The software I used was Stella 4d, which you can find right here.
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