Re: Another try on (new?) reflective sundial

[BillGottesman]

I gave thought to something like this around 1998, when working on my reflective Reniassance sundial.  I played around with bunch of mirrors, and convinced myself this idea would not work because the convex component of the mirror would diverge rather than focus light, and that is as far as I got.  I wish I could offer more optimism.
-Bill

In a message dated 2/4/2006 2:48:10 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

It really looks like I could replace the small mirrors with a strip of
metal that was warped/twisted and make the linear ( or other ) ceiling
clock continous in time.  I'd have a bright squigly line but a red spot
running along a marked out line with linearly spaced time marks.
4.  The strip of metal could also be made concave in the declination
plane in order to restrict the red spot to a similar path over the
seasons.

Now, has anyone else tried this, has anyone analyzed it?
Or, well, does it sound too strange?

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