Daylight savings time is gone!! HOORAY! I'm sure lots of you love it but not me.
To celebrate I've put another postscript sundial program on the web. This one is for a Cylinder dial. It's not interactive yet. By next week you'll be able to submit your latitude and the height and circumferance of your cylinder and print a customized dial. Till then you have to edit the PostScript as before. I've have made a form interface to the dial which got me started with PostScript in the first place, i.e., the 007 capuchin dial, so now you can avoid editing the PostScript. They both may be found via http://axum.tripod.com On another note, what sort of sundial installation would be particularly well suited to mark the 45th parallel? I like the idea of using a vertical-horizontal pair and a two sided equatorial dial, something like the one in the sunclocks book. The idea is to get something that really shows that there is something special about 45 degrees lat. I recently went to the Oregon coast. There is a tribal casino which is right by, if not right on, the 45th parallel. It's called Chinook Winds. They have a TV commercial with a helicopter flying over the casino. The 45th is off in the undeveloped area at the right of the screen. I'm considering pitching a monumental sundial to them. They've got the land and they've got the money. I'd really like to hear your ideas for a big expensive sundial to sit at 45 degrees north within view of the ocean. Best wishes, John
