Hi all,
I asked a lot of questions in this thread in December and some more in
January in this one:
http://www.mail-archive.com/sundial@uni-koeln.de/msg15235.html
You, Tony, Frank, John, Bill, Willy, Hendrik and James, can be asured
that I appreciated your answers very much and they were very helpf
Dear John,
Many thanks for your comments...
> Have you considered using the ...
> "connect the dots" method.
Well that's what I normally do but I
set out the dots directly on the wall.
I have a collection of strips of bendy
wood which I use for joining the dots!
The problem with transferring a
Jim Tallman asked me:
Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2009 9:52 AM
To: 'Frank King' ; 'Thomas Steiner'
Cc: sundial@uni-koeln.de
Subject: RE: Das Ergebnis Ihres e-Mail-Kommandos
Hi Thomas & Frank:
Laying out a coordinate grid system to mark wall sundial faces can get ve
iner
Cc: sundial@uni-koeln.de
Subject: Re: Das Ergebnis Ihres e-Mail-Kommandos
Dear Thomas,
I am becoming addicted to your project!
I would love to come and be your assistant
but I would need too many layers of thermal
clothing at this time of year!!
> And I could improve the script to handle
Dear Thomas,
I am becoming addicted to your project!
I would love to come and be your assistant
but I would need too many layers of thermal
clothing at this time of year!!
> And I could improve the script to handle
> non-flat (not plane) walls, if you give
> me a (simple) mathematical descriptio
Dear Tony,
thanks for your reply.
For me this project has many dimensions. It is a sundial for my
girlfriend's family. And it is a scientific project. And it should
look fine. And it should help people who want to know time or even
like thinking about their environment.
The second point (mathemati
Dear Thomas,
I like your design. You ask for ideas
and comments. Here, in order, are the
steps that I use myself for a big wall
sundial:
1. Make a careful survey of the wall.
The wall will NOT be flat. No wall
is ever flat!!! It won't be vertical
either. No wall is ever vert
Thomas Steiner wrote:
> Hi,
> I sent this email last week to the mailingslist, but it did not
> appear. Perhaps I made a mistake or it was not accepted due to the
> attachment. I linked it now at
> http://picasaweb.google.at/lh/photo/0eDgi0IBH4-W0PiUtb3ALg?feat=directlink
> Thanks for your ideas an
Hi,
I sent this email last week to the mailingslist, but it did not
appear. Perhaps I made a mistake or it was not accepted due to the
attachment. I linked it now at
http://picasaweb.google.at/lh/photo/0eDgi0IBH4-W0PiUtb3ALg?feat=directlink
Thanks for your ideas and comments,
Thomas
2009/12/1 :
