So this could be called "analemmatic shadow plane sundial" perhaps?
(Note the date scale must be reversed as well.)

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Jan

On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 10:37 AM,  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sorry, folks.  As always, Chris Lusby Taylor is right.  And as usual I have 
> egg on my face.  I guess it's a privilege to be mentored by such a precise 
> and patient authority.
>
> Back to the drawing board.  Here's my next proposal:
>
> Lay out a conventional analemmatic sundial turned through 180 degrees, i.e. 
> with the noon marker to the south of the calendar line.  Surround the sundial 
> with a circular path, separated from the sundial by a circle of railings.  At 
> the appropriate point on the calendar line place a short upright pole which 
> could be square in cross-section.
>
> Tell the visitor to walk around the circular path until his/her shadow falls 
> in the direction of the pole.  Read the time from the analemmatic hour mark 
> on which the visitor's shadow (not the shadow of the pole) falls.
> Cover the bottom few inches of the pole with the retro-reflective material 
> sold by 3M for road traffic signs.  Then, with luck, when the visitor stands 
> on the right spot and views the pole from the same azimuth as the sun, the 
> foot of the pole will appear to glow.
>
> This meets several of Mr Phillips' desiderata.  The principal hour markers 
> will be on the southern side of the dial.  He will get his circle or 
> semi-circle.  The dial will use a human gnomon.  The pole must be moved each 
> week along a north/south scale, but the scale itself could be fairly 
> inconspicuous.  Since visitors are not allowed to tread on the sundial face 
> it can be planted tastefully - maybe in rows parallel to the driveway?
>
> Now shoot that one down!
>
> John Lynes
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