[ REQ 6006]: Polyhedra (3D models)

[vrstacey at vaxxine.com]

The Geometry Center

We have recently discovered your web page and have found it very
interesting, but we see that you may have to close down, we think this
would be a great loss as there appears to much interesting and useful
information at your site.

My wife is a Professor at the Niagara College, Welland, Canada. At this
College she is coordinator and also teaches into the Visual and Creative
Arts and Design Program. In some  of  the projects she sets for the
students they use polyhedra. They are required to draw the developed
surface of various polyhedra and construct models. They use this knowledge
to design innovative gift packages and other 3 dimensional items and apply
designs to the surfaces, mainly using the repeat design or tiling concepts.

We downloaded the program KaleidoTile and have found this to be an
excellent tool to visualise the different 3D geometric solids. We would,
however, like more!

We need 3D models of these polyhedra in a form that can be used on the
Macintosh within a program like Stata Studio Pro (this program already has
the platonic solids) or MiniCad or in a universal computer 3D exchange
format like DXF. It would be wonderful if KaleidoTile could save/export the
various objects as 3D DXF or even pict files which retain the individual
elements. As KaleidoTile cannot do this, does The Geometry Canter have or
know of a program that will do this or a library of ready made 3D models of
poyhedra in DXF or similar format which can be downloaded from the web or
ftp sites?

We would appreciate you help on this

Thank you

Robert and Valerie Stacey
vrstacey at vaxxine.com