It is not that difficult, mirror the neighbors wall in relation to the
mirror, so it will be some imaginary wall in Tom's house. The mirror is the
tip of the gnomon, or a little window whatever you like. The south facing
dial on the mirrored neighbors wall has to be mirrored back: left and right
should switched like top and bottom. And that is simply done by rotating
the whole design around a horizontal perpendicular axis.
Thibaud
At 18:21 04-01-2004, you wrote:
I love it!
If Tom can sell his neighbor on the esthetic upgrade to his house, it's a
great solution.
How does the geometry work out? Would the mirror need to be *very* high,
say, over 2 stories itself? Closer, or farther than Tom's South wall? I
guess the design trick would be to calculate a South-facing dial with a
nodus 10 feet away from the face, and adjust the nodus hieght to fit...
Dave
37.277N 121.966W
On Sun, 4 Jan 2004, Thibaud Taudin-Chabot wrote:
> Tom,
>
> There is an other solution:
> Put a miiror high on your south facing wall which will reflect the sun on
> your neighboors North wall.
> Design a sundial for that North Facing wall of your neighboor. He will
> never look at it but you see it all the time.
>
> Thibaud
>
> At 07:36 04-01-2004, you wrote:
> >I have a nice, south-facing room. The trouble is, my neighbor's
two-story
> >house is about 10 feet away, due south. Consequently, if I cut an
> >aperture in my wall, the sun would find it only mid-summer. The rest of
> >the time, my neighbor's roof would block the sun. Demolishing his second
> >story is not an option, he says.
> >
> >Tom Egan
> >33.642 N, 117.943 W-
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