Rafael Soler Gaya has designed and built several robust and vandal resistant 
bifilar sundials. Most are in Mallorca and described in my presentation 
“Sundials in Mallorca” available here as a 28 MB 64 page Power Point file. 
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1jhijp42m2dacGNDIqg4WOx7Fyn3XKgrF

The cover picture showing the dial at Camp de Mar, Mallorca is here as a 150 kb 
JPG.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1OsRUKFq0ujkd2qoa528D61dF1AG-nTWD

My favourite is the garden fountain bifilar. Here a water jet falling in in a 
parabolic curve and a chain hanging in a catenary curve form the intersecting 
bifilar shadows on the vertical wall.

His techniques are described in the NASS Compendium V13-4 Dec 2006 and the BSS 
Bulletin 22 (IV) 34-37)

Roger bailey
Walking Shadow Designs
N 48.6, W 123.4



From: César Busto
Sent: September 29, 2019 8:34 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Sundial designs against vandalism (Cesar Busto)

A robust and anti-vandalism solution would be to build a bifilar sundial with 
two vertical walls whose heights correspond to a classic bifilar .

By adding an hole to the N-S wall, you could trace an analemma.

César Busto



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