Antiprism

Antiprism is a set of programs for generating, transforming, manipulating and visualising polyhedra, a 3D shape whose faces are polygons. The tool can come in handy for anyone into Geometry theories, but can also be used to create digital art.

The utility works with OFF files, which is a geometry definition file format that packs the descriptions of the polygons included in the polyhedra. The aforementioned complex file can store 2D and 3D objects that users can manipulate in a plethora of forms. More precisely, the app allows users to set the orientation, merging, rotations, translations, adding colors, alignments and radial coloring based on symmetry.

There are numerous transformation utilities included in the set and that are worth experimenting with. Depending on the requirements of the projects, users can transform the polyhedra to polyhedron stellations, zonohedra, Leonardo da Vinci style models, polyhedral kaleidoscope, convex hulls, kaleidocycle rings of polyhedron  or geodesic spheres, just to name a few.

The OFF files can also be converted into other formats, including, but not limited to POV, VRML, DAE or Collada, Wavefront OBJ or coordinated files. Users can receive reports on the modifications made or global measures (e.g. area, volume, centroid), maxima, and counts that they can employ with other projects.