photo by darkmatter.

3D Crafts Breakthrough

I’ve not revealed my “invention” heretofore, and I’m not going to begin to either. But this software I purchased the other day is going to expand the possibilities for my “invention”, and lead to some “crafty” products I can sell.

Toroid using only heptagons and squares

I was reading the related material, and I came to the document’s conclusion:

We have presented a computer program called Great Stella, which allows the user to navigate their way through the trillions of fascinating polyhedra available. A wide range of tools including stellation, faceting, augmentation, excavation and drilling ensure the user will never run out of interesting avenues to explore. Many new and intriguing polyhedra have already been discovered, and many old favourites rediscovered.

A compound of a cube and an octahedron

Nets for any model may be printed out, with parts being grouped by colour if required, for printing directly onto coloured paper. What was traditionally a hobby requiring a high level of mathematics may now be pursued by anyone. Models may be constructed much faster without the need to manually perform the many initial calculations. Designing and drafting the nets is now also a thing of the past, with this too being automated. The model-maker may decide for themselves how deep they wish to go into the theory involved.

Stella

The geometric theory is still there for those interested, but others can now make polyhedra purely for their aesthetic appeal.

The program is available from the author’s web site [27].

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