To form this polyhedron, I took a rhombic dodecahedron, and augmented each of its twelve sides with additional rhombic dodecahedra, forming a cluster of thirteen of these space-filling polyhedra. I then stellated this cluster thirty-four times, and this was the unexpected result.
The software I used to do this may be found (and tried for free) at http://www.software3d.com/stella.php.
Software credit: http://www.software3d.com/stella.php
Software credit: http://www.software3d.com/stella.php
Software credit: www.software3d.com/stella.php.
The design on the hexagons appeared in the last post here, and was created using Geometer’s Sketchpad and MS-Paint. After that, I used another program, Stella 4d, to place these images on the hexagons of a truncated icosahedron, render the pentagons invisible, and create this rotating .gif file.
Stella 4d may be tried and/or purchased at http://www.software3d.com/stella.php.
The great dodecahedron here is red, and the yellow polyhedron is the sixth stellation of the icosahedron.
Software credit: http://www.software3d.com/stella.php
This, like “Dark Stars” before it, was based on previous posts. I stellated the post two posts ago, several more times. Software credit: http://www.software3d.com/stella.php
This was created by stellating the polyhedron seen in the previous post several times.
Software credit: http://www.software3d.com/stella.php.
This is a polyhedron with 140 faces, all triangles. There are:
Software credit: http://www.software3d.com/stella.php
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