Hello All:
I was thinking that somewhere long ago I have seen a fake, but
nice stained glass window.
You know the tinted thin plastic (Mylar?) film that
people use on their home and car windows to cut down on light
transmission? Well it's the same thing, only it has a pretty stained glas
Dave Bell wrote:
> > John,
> >
> > If the gnomon is outside and the dial face is inside, with a pane of
> > glass in between, isn't there a refraction problem?
> >
> > Mac
>
> There is a refraction offset introduced, but can't you compensate for
> that? I suppose it would complicate the layout cal
On Mon, 11 Aug 2003, John Carmichael wrote:
> You know the tinted thin plastic (Mylar?) film that people use on
> their home and car windows to cut down on light transmission? Well
> it's the same thing, only it has a pretty stained glass patern in full
> color printed on it. You buy a pattern
> John,
>
> If the gnomon is outside and the dial face is inside, with a pane of
> glass in between, isn't there a refraction problem?
>
> Mac
There is a refraction offset introduced, but can't you compensate for
that? I suppose it would complicate the layout calculations somewhat,
since the o
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Hi John,
> The gnomon would be on the outside of the window and the plastic film on
the
> inside, so drilling a hole is unnecessary if you use adhesive for the
> gnomon.
This arrangement is more complex than it might appear at first thought. Mike
Shaw has been down this road and that is what h
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> On Mon, 11 Aug 2003, John Carmichael wrote:
>
> > You know the tinted thin plastic (Mylar?) film that people use on
> > their
gnomon.
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