Hello All,
Occasionally I work on larger sundials, and a couple of years ago I designed a large glass sundial for a new research center building at Oklahoma State University. It was nearly 6 x 9 in size, a glass sundial to be mounted on the curtain wall on the south façade of the building. I never visited the site since it is quite far away, so I did the job remotely, including the initial declination determination. Up until now I have not had any good pictures of the dial in situ, but this weekend a Spectra customer who recently visited the site sent me a link that documents the dial quite nicely: http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMHZNR_The_Henry_Bellmon_Research_Center_ Sundial_OSU_Stillwater_OK_USA This was a unique project where the dial had to be mounted very high up on the building, and the dial face and time shadow needed to be visible at a very low incidence angle from street level, almost directly below. The dial also had to be visible from blocks away and it is located very near their large football stadium and meeting these two requirements made the project quite challenging. The dial plate is laminated glass with a special interlayer and the primary surface is sandblasted to receive the shadow and overcome the reflection of the sky when viewing from a low incidence angle. I hope you will all enjoy having a look... Best, Jim Tallman <http://www.spectrasundial.com> www.spectrasundial.com <http://www.artisanindustrials.com> www.artisanindustrials.com <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected] 513-253-5497
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