Re: AW: Multignomon Sundial

2011-06-14 Thread R Wall
htreiber"' ; sundial@uni-koeln.de Subject: AW: Multignomon Sundial Roderick Wall, I have the address you are looking for… http://sundial.damia.net/ and I have created one of my sundials with it: Heute ist heut! Après nous le déluge! http://www.ta-dip.de/sonnenuhren/me

AW: Multignomon Sundial

2011-06-13 Thread Reinhold Kriegler
ybe this could be used to calculate the orientation of the sticks for the multignomon sundial. Problem is, I now don't have the website address. Does anyone have the address? Roderick Wall. -Original Message- From: "H. Kühtreiber" Sent: Monday, June 13, 2011 6:46 AM

Re: Multignomon Sundial

2011-06-13 Thread R Wall
orientation of the sticks for the multignomon sundial. Problem is, I now don't have the website address. Does anyone have the address? Roderick Wall. -Original Message- From: "H. Kühtreiber" Sent: Monday, June 13, 2011 6:46 AM To: sundial@uni-koeln.de Subject: Re: Multign

RE: Multignomon Sundial

2011-06-13 Thread John Carmichael
1 PM To: sundial@uni-koeln.de Subject: Re: Multignomon Sundial John and all, I actually do think a number of small, boring sticks don't look half as inviting to our average testosterone loaded kid as a prominent, well-shaped big one. But I also admit that the idea of producing something unusu

Re: Multignomon Sundial

2011-06-13 Thread H. Kühtreiber
f reach? Thx John C. -Original Message- From: sundial-boun...@uni-koeln.de [mailto:sundial-boun...@uni-koeln.de] On Behalf Of Frank King Sent: Monday, June 13, 2011 1:01 AM To: "H. Kühtreiber" Cc: sundial@uni-koeln.de Subject: Re: Multignomon Sundial Dear Hannes, Your problem

RE: Multignomon Sundial

2011-06-13 Thread John Carmichael
nt: Monday, June 13, 2011 1:01 AM To: "H. Kühtreiber" Cc: sundial@uni-koeln.de Subject: Re: Multignomon Sundial Dear Hannes, Your problem is turning into a bed of nails... > ...the dial I had in mind would be vertical > and facing south-east... That makes the problem more intere

RE: Multignomon Sundial

2011-06-13 Thread Dave Bell
nday, June 13, 2011 7:34 AM To: sundial@uni-koeln.de Subject: Re: Multignomon Sundial They also make these adjustable jigs for drilling angle holes: (it won't give you compound angles though) http://www.grizzly.com/products/Drill-Guide/H3487 ---

RE: Multignomon Sundial

2011-06-13 Thread Dave Bell
ndial-boun...@uni-koeln.de [mailto:sundial-boun...@uni-koeln.de] On Behalf Of Chris Lusby Taylor Sent: Monday, June 13, 2011 2:41 AM Subject: Re: Multignomon Sundial Something I'm planning to do but haven't yet done, to secure a sculpture to its plinth, is to drill two or more holes at d

Re: Multignomon Sundial

2011-06-13 Thread Brent
They also make these adjustable jigs for drilling angle holes: (it won't give you compound angles though) http://www.grizzly.com/products/Drill-Guide/H3487 If you are drilling wood or plastic, this spade bit might also work as the sharp point will help in starting your hole precisely if your

Re: Multignomon Sundial

2011-06-13 Thread Bill Gottesman
Fabio, these are really wonderful ideas.  I would not have understood your block dial idea if I had not learned about shadowplane dials fom Mac Oglesby and, I believe, Fer de Vries. -Bill On 6/13/2011 8:31 AM, Fabio Savian wrote: ...

Re: Multignomon Sundial

2011-06-13 Thread Fabio Savian
... or to get the shadows alignment without the hour line Fabio Fabio Savian fabio.sav...@nonvedolora.it Paderno Dugnano, Milan, Italy 45° 34' 10'' N 9° 10' 9'' E GMT +1 (DST +2)<>--- https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial

Re: Multignomon Sundial

2011-06-13 Thread Fabio Savian
Hi, another solution is to make a block-dial. The dial may have any orientation and all the pins are orthogonal to the dial. I'm not sure of the aestethic result, but the problem is solved from the data. It will be an interesting sundial? Usually the people interested to a sundial want to be s

Re: Multignomon Sundial

2011-06-13 Thread Tony Moss
On 13/06/2011 09:10, Alexei Pace wrote: Good morning, the only time I need to drill holes at an angle was through wood. That can be done with a common drill press (ie still having the drill point vertically downwards), however you angle upwards the material to drill into at the appropriate angl

Re: Multignomon Sundial

2011-06-13 Thread Chris Lusby Taylor
year. Chris 51.4N, 1.3W - Original Message - From: Alexei Pace To: Frank King Cc: sundial@uni-koeln.de Sent: Monday, June 13, 2011 9:10 AM Subject: Re: Multignomon Sundial Good morning, the only time I need to drill holes at an angle was through wood. That can be done with

Re: Multignomon Sundial

2011-06-13 Thread Alexei Pace
Good morning, the only time I need to drill holes at an angle was through wood. That can be done with a common drill press (ie still having the drill point vertically downwards), however you angle upwards the material to drill into at the appropriate angle. Also it has to be secured properly other

Re: Multignomon Sundial

2011-06-13 Thread Frank King
Dear Hannes, Your problem is turning into a bed of nails... > ...the dial I had in mind would be vertical > and facing south-east... That makes the problem more interesting! > ... I can see no way, with my limited abilities, > to get the angles of all those gnomons right. > Any ideas? I imagin

Re: Multignomon Sundial

2011-06-12 Thread H. Kühtreiber
I would like to thank Roderick for the solution, and Frank for pulling my leg. I appreciate that ... While taking a walk this morning I thought that it would work with an equatorial dial, but I did not get far enough to realize that equatorial gnomons would do the trick. But the dial I had i

Re: Multignomon Sundial

2011-06-12 Thread Claude Hartman
This is a marvelous composition. It reminds me of the work of the sculptor Roger Perry. As far as I know he only did the one shown here: http://rogerberry.info/Sculpture/SanMateo/san-mateo-shadow-03.html However there must be many other opportunities such as covering a wall with gnomons. As

Re: Multignomon Sundial

2011-06-12 Thread Mike Shaw
<> ... and you will need gnomons on both the upper and lower sides of the dial face if you want it to work all year. Mike Shaw 53º 22'N 03º02'W www.wiz.to/sundials --- https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial

Re: Multignomon Sundial

2011-06-11 Thread Frank King
Dear Hans, Yes, Roderick Wall is right... > ... it would work if all your sticks > are parallel to the axis of the > earth. You just need a whole set of polar-oriented gnomons, BUT... You have added an extra constraint... > I would like the little gnomons to be > perpendicular to the face of

Re: Multignomon Sundial

2011-06-11 Thread R Wall
e 12, 2011 6:26 AM To: sundial@uni-koeln.de Subject: Multignomon Sundial Dear Dialists, I am thinking about a sundial, which, to discourage vandalism, should not have a big gnomon, but rather a number of small ones. I thought would be neat if they could be arranged in lines, so that at a cer

Multignomon Sundial

2011-06-11 Thread H. Kühtreiber
Dear Dialists, I am thinking about a sundial, which, to discourage vandalism, should not have a big gnomon, but rather a number of small ones. I thought would be neat if they could be arranged in lines, so that at a certain hour the shadows line up, and the next 'set' lines up at another hou