I was inspired to make a Coriolis Space Station (a cuboctahedron) after seeing the recent Elite: Dangerous art book while reading The Hand by Frank R. Wilson (recommended to me by Milton Glaser).
All the steps in one image.
The finished piece not quite floating, but πglowingπ in my workspace!
Update 2016-08-19: Comments from my high school graphics teacher :)
Kepler City seen from a distance of ~8km in the HR244 system of the Elite: Dangerous simulator.
See you in space, Commander!
βCmdr Griffee
My high school graphics teacher, Master Alan Ceen's, reply:
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It is much simpler with a little use of Graphics (remember Simon?) to obtain the 2D net for the Cuboctahedron.
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And the instruments that did it in 12 minutes flat.