Picking up the thread on the analemmatic dial discussion a while back, I think Sara Schechner was quite right in noting:
"What these dials lack (often) is a sculptural presence. They are defined by a flat environment, which while attractive and inviting up close, is typically unrecognizable or invisible from a distance. In this regard, people are not drawn up to them. They work best when the spatial environment has some vertical feature to draw the eye in." There is namely no need to limit the hour points of the anal. dial to stones hidden in the grass, or (brass) numbers inlaid into the pavement. The shadow of the (human) gnomon forms a vertical plane, and so the hour point can be any vertical mark or mark on a vertical object. This principle has been applied to the anal. dial in the Genk Sundial Park by RenÈ .... A picture is attached. Also, the uplifting of the date line in the anal. dial in Leoben (Austria): http://www.tirol.com/sundial/a_3500.htm is based on the same principle. One advantage, mentioned in the discussion, is the vandal- proofness of the anal. dial. Depending on the budget, it should be quite possible to devise an eye-catching analemmatic dial, I think. ------------------------------------------------------------ Dr. Frans W. Maes Dept. of Animal Physiology University of Groningen P.O. Box 14 Tel. : +31-50-3632357 9750 AA Haren Fax : +31-50-3635205 The Netherlands E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit my homepage at: http://www.biol.rug.nl/maes/ ============================================================
