John Carmichael contributed: >When designing a sundial, sometimes blank available space for an EOT graph >on the sundial face is limited to a certain size and shape. It would be >nice to be able to design EOT graphs of different shapes for this reason.
This is a very simple task in Adobe Illustrator with the Draw Tools filter. A pre-drawn graph, complete with lines and numerals, can be skewed or stretched to fit any rectilinear shape, wrapped around a sphere, cone, cylinder etc. or even placed accurately on a waving flag of your own design with a few simple 'drags' and keystrokes. Contrary to popular belief I do not own shares in Adobe. :-) ....but I wish I did! Tony Moss P.S. Just to amuse myself I made a 'Waving Flag' out of the beaded EofT John kindly sent me and saved it as an Acrobat file which anyone with an Acrobat Reader/Viewer should be able to see. His DXF file was 'Opened' in Illustrator, text Converted to Outlines, Grouped, and committed to a Free Distort rectangle in Draw Tools which I'd previously dragged into a flag shape. The whole operation took less than a minute. It's only 170k. Copies on request. P.P.S. I'm not nutty enough to think that EofT Flags may have some use. This is merely to illustrate what is possible.
