Math software to generate stereographic projection of polyhedra

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Is there any software to generate the stereographic projection of polyhedra?

Note that since the stereographic projection is infinite, it should take a viewing window as an input.

(In my particular application, I am trying to find stereographic projections of goldberg polyhedra, and only need slightly more than a hemisphere. Also, it would be best if was free and/or open source.)

EDIT: Wikimedia commons has a list of stereographic projections of polyhedra, but doesn't explain how they were generated.

EDIT: This comes close to what I'm looking for, but it uses orthogonal instead of stereographic projection.

EDIT: I actually know how to generate stereographically project a single point onto a plane, and how to make images that way. My trouble is finding the coordinates of the vertices of polyhedra in terms of Conway notation.

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So, here is a partial answer. First, try to make find the Conway notation of your polyhedra (this and this will probably help). Now, use http://levskaya.github.io/polyhedronisme/ to make a 3D model of that polyhedra. Finally, use https://computergraphics.stackexchange.com/q/6373/8325 to make a stereographic projection of a wire frame of the 3D model.

So, it doesn't work with every polyhedra, and it requires multiple pieces of software, but it is better than nothing.