Where can I find a model of a dodecahedron or tutorial on how to make one myself. I neen to model DaVinci's regular dodecahedron as illustrated in Luca Pacioli's De divina proportione. Thanks,

FYI I have looked at "market place" search tool at this site and find some primitives items that include dodecahdra but they are for vue 4 (?) nothing for Bryce... Thanks

There is a standard dodecahedron primitive in Wings3D...freeware. You could export from there and into Bryce.

o dodecahedron1 #20 vertices, 12 faces v -0.618034 0.00000e+0 1.61803 v 0.618034 0.00000e+0 1.61803 v -1.00000 -1.00000 -1.00000 v -1.00000 -1.00000 1.00000 v -1.00000 1.00000 -1.00000 v -1.00000 1.00000 1.00000 v 1.00000 -1.00000 -1.00000 v 1.00000 -1.00000 1.00000 v 1.00000 1.00000 -1.00000 v 1.00000 1.00000 1.00000 v 1.61803 0.618034 0.00000e+0 v 1.61803 -0.618034 0.00000e+0 v -1.61803 0.618034 0.00000e+0 v -1.61803 -0.618034 0.00000e+0 v -0.618034 0.00000e+0 -1.61803 v 0.618034 0.00000e+0 -1.61803 v 0.00000e+0 1.61803 0.618034 v 0.00000e+0 1.61803 -0.618034 v 0.00000e+0 -1.61803 0.618034 v 0.00000e+0 -1.61803 -0.618034 vn -0.356822 1.77165e-17 0.934172 vn 0.356822 0.00000e+0 0.934172 vn -0.577350 -0.577350 -0.577350 vn -0.577350 -0.577350 0.577350 vn -0.577350 0.577350 -0.577350 vn -0.577350 0.577350 0.577350 vn 0.577350 -0.577350 -0.577350 vn 0.577350 -0.577350 0.577350 vn 0.577350 0.577350 -0.577350 vn 0.577350 0.577350 0.577350 vn 0.934172 0.356822 0.00000e+0 vn 0.934172 -0.356822 0.00000e+0 vn -0.934172 0.356822 1.77165e-17 vn -0.934172 -0.356822 0.00000e+0 vn -0.356822 0.00000e+0 -0.934172 vn 0.356822 0.00000e+0 -0.934172 vn 0.00000e+0 0.934172 0.356822 vn 0.00000e+0 0.934172 -0.356822 vn 0.00000e+0 -0.934172 0.356822 vn 0.00000e+0 -0.934172 -0.356822 g dodecahedron1_default f 1//1 4//4 19//19 8//8 2//2 f 1//1 6//6 13//13 14//14 4//4 f 2//2 10//10 17//17 6//6 1//1 f 3//3 20//20 19//19 4//4 14//14 f 5//5 18//18 9//9 16//16 15//15 f 7//7 16//16 9//9 11//11 12//12 f 8//8 12//12 11//11 10//10 2//2 f 9//9 18//18 17//17 10//10 11//11 f 12//12 8//8 19//19 20//20 7//7 f 13//13 6//6 17//17 18//18 5//5 f 14//14 13//13 5//5 15//15 3//3 f 15//15 16//16 7//7 20//20 3//3

cut-n-paste the above into a new txt file. change the extension to obj, and import that file. Too lazy to figure out how to upload.

lol great show xenic

LOL, xenic.

Message edited on: 12/06/2004 01:02

rotfl @ xenic proves that difficulty is in the eye of the beholder

bloody hell... o_O

LOL@Xenic It almost worked!!!!!

Woah! I take that back. It DOES work! I had to unsmooth it a bit.....!

LOL @ xenic101 Hey, you gotta formula for making art look great? I'd pay for it.

oh..in Wings you create a dodecahedron, then File|export|.obj, then name it..

Um, just exported the dodecahedron from wings, opened the obj with notepad, cut-n-pasted into the forum. Not everyone has wings on hand and I was in a helpful mood. It does seem to need unsmoothed a little. I almost reposted a uv-mapped version but it was late and I messed up the first map. You people are odd.

but friendly..;)

Thank you very much but when I follow your instructions I get an error. The error is invalid target. C

Are you useing notepad? Many of the 'higher' wordprocessors add symbols and whatnot that will mess up the file.

zakalwe, that is not exactly what I mean refer to DaVinci's regular dodecahedron as illustrated in Luca Pacioli's De divina proportione. It will be a start but it looks like I'll have some work to do. Currently I'm using bryce 3d and there is no dodeca in the objects library (default) I should try the tool kit and see if there is one in there. Thanks everyone for your input.

I'm sure someone could isolate and post the obp to you. If they don't let me know...........(sorry, very busy atm)

Thank you.