At 05:40 01-03-97 -0600, you wrote: >This thread poses some interesting possibilities. > >If you could design a unique home, what special locations might >a person consider for windows, floor, halls, and rooms so that sunlight >would show in special ways? > >For example, my home faces southwest, and on Christmas day the sun >sets directly in front. Our tree can be 6 meters from the window >and get sunlight that afternoon. In June, the back of my home gets >the direct sunrise light. (except I have a large shade tree blocking >it.) > >> fer j. de vries wrote: >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> determine the projections for extremal values of Sun's zenith (for >>>each of 365 days, or some other, fewer interval) -- that would give >>>the area COVERED by the sunlight -- then the solution is everything >>>OUT OF IT. > >Some deleted > >> A mathematical methode how to calculate a plane sundial is on my >> homepage >> http://www.iaehv.nl/users/ferdv/ >> Click English and than the page to compute sundials. > >Some deleted > >> This makes the problem a little more complicated. >> In the horizontoscoop this is directly visible. >> Fer J. de Vries, Netherlands. > Indeed, a horintoscope is the right instrument for this kind of problems. I also use it to find out which tree has to be cut and which branches. The horintsope is produced by: 'Institut fuer Tageslichttechnik' Rob. Koch strasse 116 Stuttgart Germany. (postal code unknown to me, the old one was 7000, but they changed it to 5 digits in Germany)
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