Re: French dam to be world´s biggest sundia l

2009-06-16 Thread Tony Moss
John Pickard wrote: Hello Tony, You can't be serious that the dial in your image cost 3 M Euros. Surely not. While it looks like a rather attractive design, there doesn't seem to be anything remarkable about it. I could understand maybe ten or twenty thousand Euros (nice work if you can

Re: Translations

2009-06-16 Thread Frans W. Maes
Dear Steve and all, Three free translators I sometimes use for websites or short texts, are: - Babelfish: http://babelfish.yahoo.com/ - Google: http://translate.google.com/ - Prompt: http://www.online-translator.com/ You may try each on the AFP press release:

Re: Translations

2009-06-16 Thread Willy Leenders
Is there anyone who understand the mathematics behind the sundial concept, i.e. determining the hour lines so that the curved form of the shadow touches this lines in a point at the concerned time ? Willy LEENDERS Hasselt in Flanders (Belgium) www.wijzerweb.be Op 16-jun-2009, om 12:12

RE: Translations

2009-06-16 Thread Jack Aubert
The lava strips are made from lave emaillée which is different from lave: Extraite dans les volcans d'Auvergne, la lave émaillée est réputée pour sa dureté. La lave emaillee ne craint pas pas le gel, la pierre de lave emaillee resiste parfaitement aux UV, la lave émaillée résiste à beaucoup

Re: Wall declination using google earth

2009-06-16 Thread Frans W. Maes
Dear Roger, Damia and all, Instead of fiddling with the display settings of the monitor, I use the Pen Tool of my image processing program, Paint Shop Pro, to measure wall declination. I guess other programs have a similar tool. When drawing a straight line over a sharp picture element

RE: Wall declination using google earth

2009-06-16 Thread John Carmichael
I do the same thing, but I use the line tool in Delta Cad. I import the Google Earth photo into Delta Cad, then I draw a red line over the wall or roofline. Then using edit tab for the line, Deta Cad tells me the exact angle of the line. -Original Message- From: