Pentagonal System of Six Vortices

Posted on 14 September 2014 by RobertLovesPi

A Rhombic Dodecahedron Featuring Rotating Pentagonal Mandalas

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Geometer’s Sketchpad and MS-Paint were both used to make the images on the faces of this polyhedron, and then Stella 4d was used to put it all together and create this rotating image. Stella may be bought, and/or tried for free, at www.software3d.com/Stella.php.

Eight Rotating Triskelions

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Eight Rotating Triskelions

I could not have made this without Stella 4d, software you can try for free (as a trial version), or buy, at http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php.

A Rotating Great Rhombicosidodecahedron, with Spinning Mandalas On Its Faces

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A Rotating Great Rhombicosidodecahedron, with Spinning Mandalas On Its Faces

This polyhedron is also known as the truncated icosidodecahedron. However, I prefer the name which appears in the title of this post.

I made the image which appears on each face with Geometer’s Sketchpad and MS-Paint, and then used Stella 4d to project this image onto each face of this polyhedron, and create this rotating .gif image.

If you’d like to try Stella 4d for free, just visit this site: http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php. To my knowledge, a free trial download is only available for Stella 4d, but not for the other programs mentioned above.