Re: Azimuthal dial

[Fernando Cabral]

"fer j. de vries" wrote: Fernando, Another picture of such a dial at Southern latitude 35 degrees and suntime can be seen as followGo to my home page ( URL below ) and use the link "Types zonnewijzers". You find it just above the start of the English part. Beautiful. Now that I've seen one for latitude 52 and another for latitude 35 I started having ideas. What would be the appearence of one for the latitude 0? I can imagine (I don't know if Math and reality supports me) a dial designed as human lips. Imagine a woman puts some lipstick and kisses a piece of white paper. Putting a rod on the center we (I mean, YOU) could perhaps have an Azimuthal dial for the latitude 0? Months Jan, Feb, 1/2 Mar, 1/2 Sept, Oct Nov and December would be represented in the upper lip; the other months in the lower lip. Does this make sense or am I completely stray?   - fernando PS - Since I was visiting your site I downloaded your "computation of flat sundials again". I had done once, in the hope that I could write it in C. I don't know what I did to the pages, but I know that in the last few years I have not been able to use a C compiler not even to say "hello world". Perhaps I can program it into my calculator, during a flight. -- Fernando Cabral                         Padrao iX Sistemas Abertos mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]              http://www.pix.com.br Fone Direto: +55 61 329-0206            mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] PABX: +55 61 329-0202                   Fax: +55 61 326-3082 15º 45' 04.9" S                         47º 49' 58.6" W 19º 37' 57.0" S                         45º 17' 13.6" W