So it is actually the same as a window sundial but more or less in a horizontal position and doesn't project its hourlines on a surface to read time.

At 12:47 28-7-2015, Robert Terwilliger wrote:
If you hold your cursor to the right side of any image you will see a carat ">" that will take you to the next photograph - and eventually to  models for the construction.

The time is read by looking up at the translucent ellipse as in this photo:

<http://photo.xuite.net/nycl.chiu/6138077/4.jpg>http://photo.xuite.net/nycl.chiu/6138077/4.jpg

Google translate also helps.

Bob


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From: sundial [mailto:sundial-boun...@uni-koeln.de] On Behalf Of Chi lian Chiu
Sent: Monday, July 27, 2015 1:51 AM
To: Sundial sundiallist
Subject: A translucent sundial

​Hi all,

I am very glad to inform you that several pictures of the translucent sundial up in the sky as I mentioned two years ago are now available at

<http://photo.xuite.net/nycl.chiu/6138077/1.jpg>http://photo.xuite.net/nycl.chiu/6138077/1.jpg

http://photo.xuite.net/nycl.chiu/6138077/2.jpg

<http://photo.xuite.net/nycl.chiu/6138077/3.jpg>http://photo.xuite.net/nycl.chiu/6138077/3.jpg

http://photo.xuite.net/nycl.chiu/6138077/4.jpg

<http://photo.xuite.net/nycl.chiu/6138077/5.jpg>http://photo.xuite.net/nycl.chiu/6138077/5.jpg



The dial is attached to a public art sculpture, “The Gate of Ecology”.

name:Â  The Sundial of Ecology

type:Â  sloped

face plate material:Â  5 mm plus 8 mm double tempered glass

face treatment:Â sandblasted to be translucent, leaving hour-lines transparent

hour numerals:Â  marked on the frame, not on the face plate

gnomon material:Â  stainless steel, #304

inclination:Â  10 degrees due west (west end is the lower end)

shape of the plate:Â  oval, 1.8 m by 1.2 m
center height from the ground:Â  5.7 m

location:Â  23.49N, 120.12E

designer:Â  Chi-Liang Chiu (individual) and Mega Design Co.

funding source:Â Forestry Bureau, Council of Agriculture, Taiwan, Rep. of China

built date:Â  Nov. 2013



Have a nice day!



Chi-Liang

24.78N, 120.99E
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