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Stella provides a configurable workspace comprising several panels. Once a model has been selected from the range available, different views of it may be displayed in each panel. These views can also include measurements, symmetries and unfolded nets.
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Other features include spring network relaxation, generation of the convex hull, and generation of cupolaic blends and related figures.
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version was added, allowing the generation and display of four-dimensional polytopes (
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This is quite a sophisticated program for those who want to go beyond the basics.
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A variety of operations may be performed on any polyhedron. In 3D these include:
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for polyhedra. These nets may then be assembled into actual three-dimensional
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Bedford, Mike (August 2008). "Great Stella software".
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which can be manipulated and altered in various ways.
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Index

list of references
related reading
external links
inline citations
improve
introducing
Learn how and when to remove this message
STELLA (programming language)

stellation diagram
net
compound of five tetrahedra

truncated tesseract
truncated cube
computer program
Australia
polyhedra
Platonic solids
Archimedean solids
Kepler-Poinsot solids
Johnson solids
Johnson Solid near-misses
compounds
uniform polyhedra
stellation
dualization
convex hulls
nets
polyhedral models

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