Dear fellow dialists, A few months back I mentioned here that I was working on a refinement of the 007 PostScript capuchin sundial (www.math.toronto.edu/007/ at the bottom of the page.)
I finished the project some time ago and I want to share it but I don't have a place to keep such files on the web. Currently I'm borrowing some space but it's only temporary. If you have 7 to 90 k of spare webspace and want to help me out go to www.cyberspace.org/~jh/dial/ and download capuch1.ps (and/or eqdial.ps), put them on the web and let me know the URL so I can link to it/them. There is one problem I should address. A user informed me that the top of the capuchin dial ran off the top of the page. He also said the same thing happened with the 007 dial. I never heard of that happening to anyone else and I'm assuming it's unique to his configuration. If anyone out there knows the answer I'd love to hear from you. In any case I've moved it down a little. I hope it's enough. PostScript is really a programming language (you may need Ghostscript, www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/) and capuch1.ps is a program. For it to be usable you'll likely have to modify it for your latitude (unless you live in Hartford, Ct or Miami, Fl.) Once that's done you cut the paper and make it into a capuchin sundial. (Likewise the equatorial dial, eqdial.ps, is a simple kit made from a sheet of paper and a pencil.) Thanks, John
