Warren,
I guess that you have to write the program in Java. That is as far as I
konow the only possibility for being to run on a Mac and Windows and I
guess also under Linux.
Thibaud Chabot
At 15:29 25-08-2006, Warren Thom wrote:
Hi Fer and
all,
I have just read the latest issue of the
Dear Willy,
That is an interesting sundial...
I made the calculation for the hour lines and datelines
for a sundial ... on a concave cylindrical wall...
When I first heard about this project, I imagined that the
nodus would be hidden in shadow for most of the day by the
wings of the wall.
Dear Frank,When I calculated the sundial for this wall there was no wall at all.It is a new building.The cylindrical wall consists of elements of smooth concrete. The hourlines and datelines are grooves formed according to my calculations during casting the elements. I started with the
Hello Frank,
Would you be willing to expand on the eight steps you listed in your
procedure for dealing with a supposedly flat wall? I know how to do
number 1, but have little idea how to deal with most of the other
steps.
I fear I've been guilty of mostly assuming that whatever wall I was
Dear John C.,
Wow, I just downloaded my copy of the compendium. Hendrik's
dials are fantastic! All this goes to prove my conjecture that
Gnomonic science is alive and well and advancing after all those
years of suppression by various rigid belief systems. Yes, it does
look like Fer's great
