Hello All: About a year ago, Tony Moss made some beautiful 4 x 8 inch bronze Equation of Time plaques for me. When we were working on their design, I originally wanted them to have horizontal lines of one minute increments and vertical lines of five day increments. This made a graph which was very busy with way too many closely spaced lines, so we ended up using horizontal lines of five minute increments and vertical lines with 5 day increments.
To avoid using so many lines, I recently designed a beaded EOT graph with beads on the curve representing dates at ten day increments, and horizontal lines with one minute increments. I also indicate the solstices and equinoxes with larger beads. This version is attractive, precise and very easy to read. If anybody would like my original Delta Cad file (14.2 KB) of my beaded EOT graph please tell me and I'll send it as an attachment. (note: you must have Delta Cad to view this. Unfortunately,I tried converting the DC file to GIF, JPEG, and BMP files, but for some reason the beads don't show up in these formats). Best John Carmichael Tucson Arizona p.s To draw this graph on Delta Cad, I went about it in a roundabout way. Because there are no programs available for drawing customized Delta Cad EOT curves, I scanned the EOT graph in the Shadows generator program and placed the scanned photo in DC. Then I traced over all the lines, added some nice text and borders, then erased the photo. pps. It would be nice to have a DC macro which would allow the user to draw customized EOT graphs with different time and date increments and different allowable spacings between these lines. This way, you could make EOT curves of different sizes and shapes which would be convenient for adding to dial faces that have limited available free space.
