vZome is a program for building virtual Zome models. It can be used interactively, or you can write powerful scripts in the Zomic language.

You can download and launch vZome using Java Web Start... no need to install anything! This will install a disabled edition of vZome, which lets you view existing vZome models but does not let you create new models. To enable the full-featured modeling capabilities, please send a note to me ("scott") at "vorthmann.org", and I'll reply within a day or less, typically.

vZome will not run without Java. If the Java Web Start link above does not work for you, you may need to install (or upgrade to) the Java Runtime Environment 1.4 or newer.

If you subscribe to the vZome-users mailing list, you will learn of new releases of vZome, and you can share experiences and ideas with other vZome users.

Although there's no real user documentation as of yet, I've started a very minimal User's Guide. Also, you can glean some good tips by scanning the vZome-users archives.

Here are various pages that I've put together on some interesting vZome models and the related mathematics, in roughly chronological order spanning the last two years or so:

• the vertex-first projection of the 120 cell
• quaternion multiplication and 4D projections
• Gosset's polytopes
• the grand antiprism
• the 5-cell and its family
• affine-regular pentagons and dodecahedra
• affine projections of the 120-cell
• building the omnitruncated 24-cell
• Robert Morri's icosahedral fractal