Good morning sundiallists !
Here I am again, with my ugly problem ! I went last saturday to my
friend's new house. It has a 4,35 m diameter tower, facing to East !
I really don't know how a sundial could look on such a wall !
I didn't find any software able to draw these lines, that are curves.
Tony Moss wrote:
Patrick Kessler wrote:
Can anyone recommend an essay on steriographic projection? In
particular I
am searching for a proof that circles on the sphere are mapped onto
the
equatorial plane as circles.
As ever my response to this query is via graphical rather than
Steve,
I am impressed by your code and I can learn a lot of it for my own
purposes.
Thanks for sharing this to us.
I added the following sentences ( from Ron Anthony ) to avoid that a second
run stops Deltacad as happens with me.
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'Added by Fer:
'Maximize the window, close any existing
Hi Steve,
I just printed out your scadd sundial. It's nice.
Regarding the topic of getting fonts to print out the way you want them
to, PostScript has a command that turns a charcater to a just another
path. It should be possible to do that and then turn it into dxf.
Then it should be possible
Peter,
As I mentioned in my earlier note, I took out Southern Hemisphere support
while I struggled to understand how your dials would look. I'd still
appreciate answers to my earlier note, but in the mean time I've posted a
new version of SCADD that does accept SH coordinates and caters for your
John,
The gnomon on your dial is a verticale pin at the center of the cross,
and half as tall as the cross, right?
Not sure which case you mean. In the polar-axis case, you're making a
Horizontal Dial. The gnomon climbs at an angle from the centre of the dial
(the centre of the cross). It you
