Re: Spiral DC drawing

2002-10-08 Thread Ron Anthony
John, Here is a DeltaCad macro to draw the spiral of Archimedes. There are 2 constants that you can change to change the spiral: Factor = how far the revolutions of the spiral are apart. I.e., the a in the formula r = a * Theta. Revolutions = the number of spirals. Note: there is a

Re: seeking for an azimuth software

2002-09-14 Thread Ron Anthony
Mac, Using Internet Explorer everything looked fine to me. ++ron - Original Message - From: "Mac Oglesby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Saturday, September 14, 2002 3:07 AM Subject: RE: seeking for an azimuth software > > Hello David, > > I went to the web site you mention but fo

Dial Comic strip

2002-09-11 Thread Ron Anthony
Since we limit the size of attachments I will just explain the cartoon strip. A hip young couple is standing in front of a horizontal sundial. On the other side of the dial is a older man in bib overalls and a baseball cap saying, "This my dear, is a sundial. As the sun moves, it casts a shad

Re: Beware messages from Colonial Brass

2002-08-15 Thread Ron Anthony
John, I have worked with and used products from Colonial Brass. I won't characterize them or their products as bogus. ++ron - Original Message - From: "John Carmichael" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Sundial List" Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2002 8:44 AM Subject: Beware messages from Colon

Re: Keeping it simple

2002-07-19 Thread Ron Anthony
John, I use a similar technique. I usually say something like: "A watch is based on, an imaginary earth that is traveling in a perfectly round orbit, and is not tilted. The sundial is based on the real earth traveling around the real sun." Most people seem to vaguely remember that orbits ar

Re: High Noon

2002-06-26 Thread Ron Anthony
>Noon itself derives originally from "nine" or the ninth hour after >sunrise (probaby 3pm :-) and not when it is apparently highest in the sky. Now isn't that interesting. By coincidence or not, the noon hour on old Japanese dials and clocks is 9. There are a couple of math models that explain

Re: Monumental Statistics?

2002-06-16 Thread Ron Anthony
John, It my understanding the the Minnamimura gnomon height is 37.3 meters. This issue of the largest is a tough one but one that a lot of diallist and non-diallist alike are interested in. Maybe NASS should undertake documenting the dimensions of the larger dials and post it on the web si

Re: seminar

2002-06-14 Thread Ron Anthony
tony, The 3D model sounds like something I've been mulling over for years. Please send me a copy too. Cheers, ++ron - Original Message - From: "Tony Moss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Sundial Mail List" Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 2:41 AM Subject: Re: seminar > Greg, > > > >I have

Re: Multiple Wrap-around Styles

2002-05-19 Thread Ron Anthony
John and Fer, When I was working on a design for a customer, I thought of using a large cube. The cube would be oriented so that it rested on one point, and one edge would be on very top and serve as the gnomon. Then I realized that I really had 3 gnomons, the one on the very top, and two ot

Re: Sloping Analemmatics

2002-04-15 Thread Ron Anthony
John, If the DeltaCad macro use Fer's calculations for finding the points, then I think the modification can be done easily. Which version of code are you using? ++ron - Original Message - From: "John Carmichael" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 3:05 PM Subject:

Re: Sawyer Equant

2002-04-02 Thread Ron Anthony
Bill, Nice and clear description, and no math! ++ron - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 9:51 AM Subject: Sawyer Equant > I put a few sketches of why the Sawyer Equant dial works on my website at > www.precisionsundials.com/why it works

Re: Slopes and inclinations

2002-03-09 Thread Ron Anthony
Anselmo,   In the general  you are correct.  In English they basically mean the same.    My dictionary says that slope is the "degree of deviation from the horizontal.:  Whereas "inclination is the degree of deviation from a definite direction, especially from the horizontal or vertical." 

Re: Virus hoaxes

2002-01-24 Thread Ron Anthony
Fenando, I agree that the forwarding of virus alerts are the best way to spread hoaxes and should be curbed. After all, a hoax is a bad meme, and spreading it does no one any good. However, I must disagree that you should supress the news of a real virus that has infected your computer. J

Re: On Bezier Curves and analemmae

2002-01-21 Thread Ron Anthony
Title: Message I don't know about others, but I use 365 points to get a pretty good approximation   ++ron - Original Message - From: Anselmo Pérez Serrada To: Sundial, Mailinglist Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 2:40 PM Subject: Re: On Bezier Curves and anale

Re: Ceiling Sundial

2002-01-04 Thread Ron Anthony
Andrew, The sundial list has served a dual purpose. The last note I got from Judith said that she was going to use the original method of marking the ceiling, using the new dates that I suggested. And, the discussion that followed seemed to be interesting to a lot of people on the list. Look

Re: Ceiling Sundial

2001-12-27 Thread Ron Anthony
Mike, Luke, I was saying, on a few of the days that the EOT is 0, look at your watch and mark the ceiling right on the hour. And then connect all of the like hours dots you will build a dial that works and is corrected for longitude, but not EOT. The hour lines are simple straight ones, (tha

Re: Ceiling Sundial

2001-12-26 Thread Ron Anthony
Judith, I've never built a ceiling dial, but something doesn't sound right about the advice that you got. The days that you choose should be days where the "equation of time is 0 (sun time and watch time agree). This happens 4 times a year. April 15, June 14, Sept 1, Dec 25. (sorry I shoul

Re: Virus

2001-11-29 Thread Ron Anthony
Fred, I was just hit by a virus called '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'. I think it came from some one on the mailing list. I have cleaned it up. It's a sick world. ++ron - Original Message - From: Fred Sawyer To: Ron Anthony Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 7:

Re: Test Message - please ignore

2001-11-27 Thread Ron Anthony
Tony, Sorry Tony, only test message are allow thru. ++ron - Original Message - From: "Tony Moss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Sundial Mail List" Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 3:06 PM Subject: Test Message - please ignore > I think I've been excommunicated from the List again as I've

Re: equinox solar declination

2001-09-22 Thread Ron Anthony
All,   I have use David's software in conjuction with DeltaCad calculation and found it to be very accurate and useful.  If you have a need of sundial routines for your programs you should check it out.  It works with many programing languages.    ++ron - Original Message - Fro

Drawing programs

2001-09-20 Thread Ron Anthony
For those of you who saw Tony Moss' excellent demonstration of Adobe Illustrator, you might be interested in knowing that you can get a FREE copy of TurboCad that will do many of the things that AI does. I'm not saying better, but almost as good, and definately cheaper. Check it out at http:

Conference

2001-09-17 Thread Ron Anthony
Bob, As always, it was a pleasure to see you, and the progress of your work in digital dialling. Also as alway, the trip home is filled with thoughts (daydreams?) of the dials that could be build. For what its worth, the one thought that I had in connection with your vertical digital design

Re: Spam filters

2001-08-22 Thread Ron Anthony
John,   I have Earthlink which Mindspring is a part of i think.  I have been using thier Spaminator product for about a year now.  For the first few months I would go to their web site and review the mail they thought was spam.  In 3 months of checking they never tossed something that I thou

New England to Montreal

2001-08-22 Thread Ron Anthony
New Englanders, I will flying into Manchester NH Saturday night Sept 8th. I was planning to drive to Montreal on Sunday, but I thought I would ask if there are any interesting alternatives such as trains, or if someone might want to share a ride. ++ron

Re: Translaton to DXF

2001-07-19 Thread Ron Anthony
Tony, I have several CAD and drawing programs that can all create vary degrees of DXF files, some better than others. Let me know what formats you can produce it in, I'll let you which I can accept. Also check with the vendor and see if they will accept any other format. I have real good lu

Re: Oughtred

2001-07-01 Thread Ron Anthony
Günther ,   You have hit on one of my pet interest.  I am always thrilled and amazed when I hear someone pronunce a word that I have only read before, especially if they use it in a conversation.  Just guessing,  "Ott-red" or "Ot-tread".   ++ron     - Original Message - From:

Re: travels and sundials

2001-06-02 Thread Ron Anthony
Francois, I would be glad to send you a list a some pictures of the dials that I know about in the San Francisco area. ++ron - Original Message - From: François Blateyron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 10:37 AM Subject: travels and sundials > Dear all > > 1)

Sundial Movie Update

2001-05-20 Thread Ron Anthony
All, A while back I mentioned that I was asked to consult on a movie called the "The Sundial Fields". Well the shooting is complete. The movie will be a 20 minute or so love story about a sundial maker who loses his lover by accident/murder. The scenes were set in a small town in 1929 and 1

Unblockage test

2001-04-02 Thread Ron Anthony
Just a test

earthlink users

2001-03-29 Thread Ron Anthony
Earthlink, If there are any Earthlink.net user than can send to this mail list ok, please post a message. I am trying to troubleshoot a problem that many of Earthlink user are having on this list. Thanks ++ron

New California DST

2001-03-26 Thread Ron Anthony
All, The other day I heard on the radio that some politcians has proposed a 2 hour Daylight Savings Time offset to save energy. ++ron

Re: does this work

2000-12-08 Thread Ron Anthony
Tony, My term for these are "Sundials that aren't" It usually invoke the response "Aren't what?" to which I reply "Sundials". It leaves them very confused. ++ron --Original Message-- From: Tony Moss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sundial Mail List Sent: December 8, 2000 6:57:29 PM GMT Su

Ideas

2000-11-28 Thread Ron Anthony
All, I am working with a noted local artist to design a large (say a 30 foot diameter circle) sundial. It is expected to be a serious piece of art. His first priority is to make it a sculpture, and secondly a sundial. If you have any favor ideas, designs or existing dials that you think fit

FWD: RE: bent arm sundial in Tacoma

2000-10-25 Thread Ron Anthony
All, Is there anybody in the Seattle/Tacoma area that could help out with this dial problem? ++ron --Original Message-- From: Lynette Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: 'Ron Anthony' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: October 25, 2000 4:40:42 PM GMT Subject: RE: bent

HELP on Zodiacs

2000-10-05 Thread Ron Anthony
Help, I'm away from my notes, and I need the degree values needed to draw the 6 lines of declination for the entry into each of the Zodiac. Anyone have the values handy? ++ron

RE: beaded analemmas

2000-09-29 Thread Ron Anthony
John and all DeltaCad users, Why don't you take the DeltaCad code for Horizontal #7 and add in an option for beaded analemmas instead of the straight hour lines? ++ron PS: If no one steps up to the task I will do it for you. --Original Message-- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Carmic

Just test

2000-09-26 Thread Ron Anthony
Just a test

FWD: RE: How do I turn my DeltaCad design into reality? Machine cutting question

2000-09-18 Thread Ron Anthony
--Original Message-- From: Ron Anthony <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Steve Lelievre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: September 18, 2000 2:28:25 PM GMT Subject: RE: How do I turn my DeltaCad design into reality? Machine cutting question Steve, This is one of the most frustrating aspect

Re: head nodus

2000-08-10 Thread Ron Anthony
09, 2000 9:56 PM Subject: Re: head nodus > Hi Dave, > > You are correct in your conclusions that analemmatic designs have hour > points rather than hour lines and a universal analemmatic design would > require a series of nested dials. > > Fred Sawyer and Ron Anthony collaborat

Re: Longitude Program

2000-07-11 Thread Ron Anthony
All > John Carmichael wrote: > > > > > > 2. To determine longitude at sea, Harrison's clock was carried on board a > > ship traveling west. The clock was set before the journey to show apparent > > solar time in Greenwich. The difference between local solar time on the > > ship and the time on

Re: Longitude, the miniseries

2000-07-10 Thread Ron Anthony
Left Coasters, Note: A&E is now a dual feed station. So when the adverts say "8pm/7 central" that means its on at 8:pm on the pacific coast. (Not 5 as it used to be). ++ron - Original Message - From: Fritz Stumpges <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, July 10, 2000 1:23 PM Subject:

Re: Water filled sundial at Herstmonceux

2000-06-07 Thread Ron Anthony
Steve, I saw a student design that was similar made from a water bottle. The water was used to set the Latitude by tilting the bottle, and the hour markings were on the underside of the bottle. ++ron - Original Message - From: Andrew James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: 'Steve Lelievre' <[EM

Re: Ceiling Dials

2000-05-02 Thread Ron Anthony
Gordon, Someone posted this URL on the NASS message board. www.interiorsundials.bigstep.com Its a company in England that designs ceiling dials. ++ron - Original Message - From: Gordon Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2000 9:10 AM Subject: Ceiling Dials > Greet

DeltaCad

2000-04-29 Thread Ron Anthony
All,   All 20 copies of DeltaCad that I ordered last month have been bought.  I will be placing a second order for 10 more copies today.  The price is still $35 for US and $40 for overseas.  (A $10 savings)  Visit their website www.dcad.com to get a demo copy.    ++ron

[no subject]

2000-04-25 Thread Ron Anthony
read the help section on calls. ++ron - Original Message - From: fer j. de vries <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Ron Anthony <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sundial Mailing list Sundial Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2000 2:19 AM Subject: Re: DeltaCad , NASS logo > Ron Anthony and others, >

DeltaCad

2000-04-22 Thread Ron Anthony
All, I have attached the source code to draw the NASS logo in DeltaCad. It has some interesting subroutines: . routines that do trig functions in degrees rather than radians. . modified DeVires' fomula to use degrees rather than radians. . Uses some of Fred Saywer's formulas to draw lines

Re: More on Plotting and Printing

2000-04-09 Thread Ron Anthony
Thibaud, Thanks for the pointer. It goes to show that there is nothing new under the sun. I do have BASIC script that draws the logo. I will convert it to DeltaCad. ++ron - Original Message - From: T.& M. Taudin-Chabot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Sunday, April 09, 2000 1:15 AM Su

Re: More on Plotting and Printing

2000-04-08 Thread Ron Anthony
Bob, To me it appears that the two files are similar. When I look at the two files I see the same types of commands except the HPGL commands are separated by semicolon. In my PCL5 book from HP it defines HP-GL as a vector graphics language. (In fact most of my old dials are written in it.) It

Re: DXF to HP plotter conversions

2000-04-07 Thread Ron Anthony
Steve, There is some confusion here, (and in the file conversion world) about HPGL which technically is a graphic language for the HP printers, and HP plotter files. Bob's technique works for plotters or PLT type files. I tried an HPGL dummy printer and none of my programs could view it. Now t

DXF to HP plotter conversions

2000-04-06 Thread Ron Anthony
All, I tried Bob Terwilliger's method for creating HP plotter files from DeltaCad and it works well with DeltaCAD and Windows 98. Windows 95 should not be too different.To get to the "add printer" wizard: From the START button, select SETTINGS, PRINTER, and then ADD PRINTER. Once the printe

DeltaCad Dialers

2000-04-05 Thread Ron Anthony
All, I have shipped 16 of the 20 copies of DeltaCad that I ordered. Attached is a script I wrote to draw a noon mark for a dial that that has the aperture at 36.125 " above a dial face that sits in the plane of the poles. I think that its accurate, but we have not built anything with it yet. F

RE: Anodised aluminium dials

2000-04-05 Thread Ron Anthony
John, Great stuff. I have been outsourcing all of my anodized worked. Especially since they can do a brass - like color, but your success encourages me to bring my one of a kind work home. Are you saying that you use a positive mask?, i.e., Black lines on a clear field. If so that's great

Classifications

2000-04-02 Thread Ron Anthony
Sara, I have taken your classification and restructured it into a language called Backus-Naur that is used to describe languages, descriptions, sentences, etc. I have taken the liberty of adding a few descriptions, but this is basically yours. It looks cumbersome but it isn't too bad. It is a wa

DeltaCad

2000-03-30 Thread Ron Anthony
All, Forgot to include my address. Ron Anthony 3956 Kauri Ct Concord, CA 94521 ++ron

DeltaCad

2000-03-30 Thread Ron Anthony
All, I made a quantity purchase of DeltaCADs They were $29.99 each. We save $10. They arrived today. If you would like a one please email me or send me a letter and I will send a copy out. I'll make the shipping the same as Midnight Software did. If there are any extra pennies left over I w

DeltaCad

2000-03-27 Thread Ron Anthony
All, PLEASE NOTE: Version 4.0 For WindowsT 95, 98, NT(4.0), or 2000 NO WINDOWS 3.1 or MAC. DeltaCAD has two offers: Standard Quanity discount: 10 copies bought at once for $29.99 ($10 savings) For Us: 50 copies bought at once for $24.99. In both cases; . It includes the CD and manu

Re: DeltaCad

2000-03-26 Thread Ron Anthony
Bob, Attached is a small DeltaCad program to draw the EOT. Much of it is derived from a program Steve Leliever posted last week. It should be easy enough to understand, and it contains some new features that I wanted to play with. ++ron - Original Message - From: Robert Terwilliger <[

Re: DeltaCad

2000-03-25 Thread Ron Anthony
John, > I think it's wonderful that you took the innitiative to check into group > rate prices for DeltaCad. Of course it doesn't help me much since I already > paid full price, but I don't care. I would gladly have paid double the > price to acquire this great program. Good point. If those of

Re: DeltaCad

2000-03-25 Thread Ron Anthony
All, Today, I have written to Midnight Software the maker of DeltaCad about a special group rate for the worldwide sundial community. Currently two discounts are available: 10 copies on CD and hard copy manuals for $29.00 + 25 copy site license on a single CD with one printed manual for $19.99

Re: DeltaCad vs. TurboCad

2000-03-23 Thread Ron Anthony
Tony, I have not worked with Illustrator yet. Does it have a programing language built into it for generating drawing based on user input. That's one thing that many of these CAD programs have that drawing programs don't. ++ron - Original Message - From: Tony Moss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: DeltaCad vs. TurboCad

2000-03-22 Thread Ron Anthony
All, I have used both of them. I'm the poerson that encouraged the developer of DeltaCad to add Cypress's Enable CAD. DeltaCAD was a shareware program until the programing capabilities were added. As such, it's not too sophisticated of a program. That's not meant to imply that that it's

Re: Yvon Masse

2000-03-14 Thread Ron Anthony
Thibauld, Thanks for the correct issue number. Now how could I have possibly keyed in the wrong date? I see. The date and volume # are wrong on that single page. ++ron - Original Message - From: T.& M. Taudin-Chabot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Ron Anthony <[EMAIL PROTE

Yvon Masse

2000-03-14 Thread Ron Anthony
All, Do you know if the following dial has ever been built? Yvone Masse's design described as the second dial in his article "Two Mean Analemmatic Sundials" in the NASS Compendium of December 1997. I am most interested in the dial shown in figure 6 which can be corrected for EOT, DST, and Longi

Re: Cylindrical Dial

2000-03-04 Thread Ron Anthony
All, I think a multiface dial would be the most practical way to go. However, what kind of shadows would be cast by a sphere (say double the size of the cylinder) impaled on the tower? ++ron - Original Message - From: Roger Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Alain MORY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Dennis di Cicco's Image

2000-02-14 Thread Ron Anthony
Bob, I love that picture. I have a 16"x20" color photo of it in my office. It's clear that the foreground was added: 1). There is only one shadow for the chimney, 2) the sun is behind the house, but the shadow of the chimney is cast by a sun that would be in the foreground. I thought I had a

Re: gnononistically challenged

2000-01-20 Thread Ron Anthony
Art, If you look at Fred Sawyer's Hectemoros dial you will see a similar concept to yours. (That is, for every date and time combination, draw a unique point.) Fred has also included; moving the dial face and the shadow casting point. In the Dali dial could/does a nodus indicate automatically

Re: zonwvlak

1999-12-30 Thread Ron Anthony
Warren, Thanks for the news that Delta CAD has a macro language now. I'll download the demo and see how it looks. Can't go wrong for $40. ++ron - Original Message - From: Warren Thom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Alexei Pace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Thursday, December 30, 1999 5:54 A

Re: sundial marketing

1999-12-03 Thread Ron Anthony
John, > I suppose you're right. It would seem almost impossible to produce a > sundial with the specs that I listed, at a low cost. But who knows, with > today's modern manufacturing techniques, maybe it could be done. > > Thanks for your comments, > > John I think you misinterpreted my intent

Re: sundial marketing

1999-12-02 Thread Ron Anthony
John, >What the world needs are some beautiful, accurate and durable sundial >designs that can be adjusted for any location, that tell Standard Time, and >that can be mass-produced and marketed like the current garden variety. >This would give these companies a run for their money, and would also

Re: easy metal gnomons

1999-11-04 Thread Ron Anthony
lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Ron Anthony <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: sundial@rrz.uni-koeln.de Date: Wednesday, November 03, 1999 7:58 PM Subject: Re: easy metal gnomons >Youngstown Aluminum Products (Youngstown, Ohio) ><http://www.yapinc.com/contact.htm> has 1/4" quarter round li

Re: easy metal gnomons

1999-11-03 Thread Ron Anthony
John, >Michael Koblic wrote: >>1) How do you attach a 1/16" thick gnomon vertically to a dial plate? >>Presumably you must bend the gnomon at the base somehow first. > >Although my string gnomons are quite different, I have made traditional >triangular and rectangular gnomons for other dials. I

Re: SCHMOYER SUNDIAL NOW AVAILABLE

1999-10-05 Thread Ron Anthony
David, Thanks for your efforts in bringing back this dial. Is there anyway that one will be at the NASS conference this weekend? ++ron -Original Message- From: David R. Gagnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: sundial@rrz.uni-koeln.de Date: Tuesday, October 05, 1999 1:03 PM Subject: SCHMOYER S

Re: Equation of Time Graph wrong way up Down Under ?

1999-09-24 Thread Ron Anthony
Patrick, PMFJI. When designing a EOT plaque a few years ago. I struggled with this question. In the end I chose the "dial fast/dial slow" labeling. Here is my reasoning. If I gave you a nice looking but somewhat erraticatic watch (the dial), and said, "It works good but its 10 minutes fast"

Re: large mails

1999-09-20 Thread Ron Anthony
Daniel, A perfect compromise. ++ron -Original Message- From: Daniel Roth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: sundial@rrz.uni-koeln.de Date: Monday, September 20, 1999 3:53 AM Subject: large mails > >Dear Gnomonists of this mailing list! > >I will check out if it is possible to discard mails lar

Re: world globes of stone

1999-09-14 Thread Ron Anthony
Hi all, For the past year I have been working on a project to make metal globes that can be used outdoors. Here is where I am in this project. . I am going to use a bowling ball as the core. It is low cost, has a high degree of sphericity (sp), and has a nice heft to it. . I found a sharewa

Re: Macintosh Sundial Program

1999-09-10 Thread Ron Anthony
John, >By the way have you looked at REALBasic as a development language for your >program ? Or are you already using it if you have a PC version close ? > >I will shortly have available a set of Plugins which will run in VectorWorks >(CAD program) that produce Fers great algorithms for PC and Ma

Re: Stone - to - stone

1999-08-29 Thread Ron Anthony
Alexei,   I think any 2 part epoxy would be good.  I have used it to stick bronze plaques to brick walls.  If any great amount of the epoxy is visible (other that a hairline) you might want to look for one that has UV stabilizer in it.    Devcon is one brand that you should be able to find

Re: length of degs./mins./secs.

1999-08-20 Thread Ron Anthony
John, I don't think you have the right approach. I just went through this for making globes and this is what I came up with: The radius of the lattitude circle in question is a function of the radius earth. That is, radius of x degree lattitude = cos(lattitude) *radius at equator. If the ea

NASS Conference

1999-08-12 Thread Ron Anthony
To all that have that have not made their reservations yet.   I found that Hilton Hartford offers a rate called the Bounceback for $79, $10 less than the conference rate.  Only catch is you can't specify a bed type.  You get what they have.   ++ron

Re: New NASS Pages on the World Wide Web

1999-06-22 Thread Ron Anthony
Bob, Great job. I especially like your treatment of the NASS logo. As shown, it would make a nice piece of jewelry. ++ron -Original Message- From: Robert Terwilliger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sundial Mailing List Date: Tuesday, June 22, 1999 9:57 AM Subject: New NASS Pages on the Wor

Re: frame & grid method

1999-05-26 Thread Ron Anthony
Bx,By are the x,y coordinates of point B using A as the origin. For example 0,10 if Point B was 100 meters north of A. ++ron -Original Message- From: John Carmichael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Ron Anthony <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: sundial@rrz.uni-koeln.de Date: W

Re: frame & grid method

1999-05-25 Thread Ron Anthony
All, I'm sorry I was only half awake when this thread started so forgive me if I'm off course. If I had to lay out a large dial (say 100 ft) to a high degree of accuracy (say .1 of an inch) I would plot all the points not as x,y co-ordinates. I would plot them all out as the intersection of tw

Re: Capuchin dial

1999-04-17 Thread Ron Anthony
Fer, Thanks for the Capuchin drawing. It indeed would work and is easy to construct. Three peices not counting the string. Two setup ajustments for Latitude, and one adjustment for daily use. The dotted line that spans the red box from top left to bottom right would probably have to be a bar w

Re: Unusual Sundial - Update

1999-04-15 Thread Ron Anthony
Bob, What a great dial. I have looked at the photos and have a few questions and comments. It appears there is an upper half of the meridian as you said. I suspect this missing piece is the same shape and size (at least at its ends) as the lower half of the merdian. This is evident by how the

What a great list.

1999-04-07 Thread Ron Anthony
Jim, I too enjoy this list. What diversitity of ideas are contained here. >>I am a professional product designer, concentrating on things visual and >>aesthetic most of the time, but I am also a perpetual student as well. >>Design is a game of analogies, and the more you know and are exposed to,

Gores for Globes

1999-02-17 Thread Ron Anthony
All, After much investigation into gores for globes, I have found a few items: There is a public domain program call MicroCAM that run on windoze that can draw many types of maps and globes. It has a mini language that allows you to develop your own maps. A projection called Universal Transve

Re: Toys for boys (AND g

1999-02-12 Thread Ron Anthony
All, >I'm interested in origin of the term "dead reckoning". I read somewhere >that it came from "ded' reckoning" i.e. "deduced reckoning". > >Any thoughts? > My dictionary says 'From DEAD (probably "complete" "exact") because it is the closest estimate possible' ++ron

Re: Gores for Globes

1999-01-05 Thread Ron Anthony
Daniel, Thanks for reminding me of your site. I really like your dials and would like to see them up close. The parameters of the globes that I have in mind are starting to take shape. They are: . semi vandal proof (thus the metal over solid plastic idea) . 8" in diameter. (this is a goo

Re: Gores for Globes

1999-01-02 Thread Ron Anthony
Forgive me if this is a duplicate message. Tony, Thank you for the detailed and helpful response. >>GORES.SEA. Gores 'Self-expanding Archive' may have been compressed in Disc >>Doubler on a Mac. ATT00018.DAT - doesn't sound Mac like! Most of these types of programs use a table of data. The .D

Gores for Globes

1998-12-28 Thread Ron Anthony
Tony Moss, Luke Coletti, et al Concerning my quest for an outdoor globe: It appears that I will have to make them myself if I want one. I don't know if I will have the skills to get it done. I have settled on an 8" diameter globe made of brass colored anodized aluminum with black outlines of

Gores for making globes

1998-09-18 Thread Ron Anthony
perhaps a cartographer that could help me I would be grateful. Ron Anthony latitude 38 57' longitude 122

query

1998-07-15 Thread Ron Anthony
Tex, The short answer is no. For dials that have a gnomon that points at the North star, the EOT correction is done by rotating the dial face around that shadow casting edge of the gnomon. For your horizonal dial, imagine a rod welded at the top edge of the gnomon. The ends of the rod are supp

The sign of the equation

1998-07-09 Thread Ron Anthony
John, I too struggled with the same problem. I think the more traditional way to draw the graph is opposite of Waugh's and labeled Sun Fast and Sun Slow. I too thought about using negative numbers but did not use them. I did not see Waugh's when I did mine but it is similar. I used the follow

Wanted a source for bras

1997-01-26 Thread Ron Anthony
Roderick, >>Does anyone know of a source for brass numbers. For the above sundial the roman numbers would need to be about 25 mm high.<< The best place to begin is a trade magazine such as SignCraft for the sign making industry. They are full of ads for letters. For Brass 2"(56mm) and 1/4"

Re: Equation of time

1997-01-01 Thread Ron Anthony
using the longer formulas from "Practical Astronomy with Your Calculator". Thank you for your help. I have enjoyed this EOT discussion very much. ++ron Ron Anthony Concord California USA

Equation of Time

1996-12-31 Thread Ron Anthony
Prof Gregorio, >> As far as the Equation of Time is concerned, the last edition of the Explanatory Supplement to the Astronomical Almanac reports (pag. 484) the following algorithm:<< Thank you for the algorithm. No matter how hard I try I cannot make the algorithm yield the correct results. I

Equation of Time

1996-12-30 Thread Ron Anthony
Francois, I saw your equation of time question on the remailer list. The equation that I use is from a book called "Practical Astronomy with your Calculator" and is more involved. I think that it is similar to yours but not sure. Here is what I use I hope there are no transcription errors. For