Small Stella can display and print nets for over 300 polyhedra. You just pick a model, decide what size you want it, and Stella figures out what nets are required and prints them out. Then you cut them out, fold them up, and glue them together to build your own polyhedra! It is ideal for amateur model-makers or as an educational geometry tool for schools. You can always upgrade to Great Stella later.

Features:
Rotate polyhedra on the screen by dragging the mouse with the left button down. Continuous rotation is also possible by releasing the button while still dragging the mouse.
Zoom in and out on polyhedra by dragging the mouse with the right button down (or use the mouse wheel).
Polyhedron faces may be exploded apart by dragging the mouse with the left button down and the Shift & Ctrl keys pressed.
Built-in models:
Platonic solids (see photos)
Archimedean solids (see photos)
Kepler-Poinsot solids (see photos)
Convex Prisms and antiprisms (see photos)
Johnson solids (non-uniform regular-faced convex polyhedra, see example photos)
'Near misses' (models that are almost Johnson solids)
Stewart toroids (regular-faced polyhedra with holes, see example photos), and Stewart's G3, Z4, X and K4' models
Five popular compounds (5 cubes, 5 octahedra, 2/5/10 tetrahedra)
A collection of geodesic domes (including geodesic spheres and geodesic hemispheres)
Duals of the above polyhedra. (Lookup dual in glossary).
Nets: (Lookup net in glossary).
Print out nets for building any of the above polyhedra. You just tell it how big the final model should be.
Nets may be grouped by colour for printing onto different coloured paper, or colours may be mixed for use with a colour printer.
Nets may be viewed folding and unfolding in 3D.

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