Sunny Day! If you are looking for an interesting sundial design to try out, Valentin Hristov has taken care of that. Valentin's latest creation is the cylinder sundial macro. You may immediately think this is a macro to draw a Shepherd's sundial. Nope. This is a macro that will draw a sundial on the inside surface of cylinder as would be delineated by a beam of sunlight through a teeny tiny hole in the cylinder's wall. And to top it off, the cylinder and therefore the hole can have any arbitrary orientation. Interested?
http://www.mysundial.ca/tsp/deltacad_sundial_macros_vh_cylinder.html This macro should make for some interesting designs by some imaginative diallists. It could be you! While you're visiting check out Valentin's modified macro for the horizontal box altitude sundial. Instead of having all 12 months inside one box you can now have one month inside each of 12 boxes. So you can fun making 12 sundials to cover the entire year instead of one. http://www.mysundial.ca/tsp/deltacad_sundial_macros_vh_altitude.html Have you been checking out Gian Casalegno's web site lately? His sundial design program "Orologi Solari" is going through many upgrades and is definitely worth while keeping an eye on. Be sure to visit it often! http://digilander.libero.it/orologi.solari And what about Simon Wheaton-Smith? He's been programming up a storm over the last while in more languages than I knew about. I trust that you have been visiting his web site Illustrating Shadows to see what he has new. His latest update date on his home page changes regularly so there's often something new. I won't give it away Simon, but I know he's been working on a big project that will blow you away when it finally comes to be. So stay tuned! By the way, if you have a DeltaCad macro that you would like included in the collection please send it to me. I will put a page together and let you review it, just to help me get all the bugs out of it, before it goes on the net. Happy Dialling! Carl Sabanski www.mysundial.ca --------------------------------------------------- https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial
