Hi all,
do you model your sundials before creating them in 3d- software like
sketchup, blender or so?
It helps if you want to know if anything around casts some shadow onto
your sundial.
I tried sketchup, but I am not yet an expert:
To model experimental sundials around 2000 I bought an 8 machinist's
rotary table (controllable to better than 1 minute of a degree). I set
up 3 light sources to mimic the solstices and the equinox, and build
scale models of my dials and observed the shadows as I turned the models
on the
some 3kw of
solar PV panels which have been powering my house for almost 10 years.
Simon Wheaton-Smith
www.illustratingshadows.com
--- On Thu, 2/11/10, Bill Gottesman billgottes...@comcast.net wrote:
From: Bill Gottesman billgottes...@comcast.net
Subject: Re: 3d sundial-model?
To: Thomas
