Magnus Wenninger
More information about the techniques I use to produce the artistic color patterns in the construction of my paper models can be found in my book: Polyhedron Models, published by Cambridge University Press in 1971, paperback edition 1974.
Robert Webb's Stella program is now the computer program I use for
the construction of all the
polyhedron models I have recently been making. It is the program
par excellence I now use for
the discovery of any new polyhedrons, especially any I have never
made before.
The photo shows a model of Ten Triangular Prisms, recently made by
me. I found the Stella version on
a webpage called '75 Uniform Polyhedra' done by Roger Kaufman. It
is #32 on this webpage. The Stella
version gives me a 3D computer view in 10 colors and allows me to
choose the size of the model and
thus also the size and shape of the net to be used for the
construction of the model. However I wanted
my model to be done using only 5 colors. This is where the artwork
comes into play. The model now
shows each prism with its faces in one color of the five. Thus it
becomes uniquely artistic in appearance.