| ILLUSTRATING SHADOWS focusing on education and interesting practical aspects of sundial design ALL BOOKS PICTURED BELOW ARE FREE |
| MICRO SHADOWS ~ ISBN 0-9765286-7-3, a 14 page book, uses microShadows.xls or .ods or .wks and the book and all the spreadsheets are in ZIP form here. Build A Horizontal Sun Dial. A 14 page booklet on build then fix a horizontal dial. Shows how to do it, but no theory. If you like it, try SIMPLE SHADOWS or better still buy Illustrating Time's Shadow |
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astro compass astrocompass shepherd ogee azimuth altitude hour angle
astro compass astrocompass shepherd ogee azimuth altitude hour angle
| Email comments or questions to the author at: illustratingshadows at yahoo dot com |
| CUBIC SHADOWS ~ ISBN 0-9765286-6-5 uses cubicShadows.xls .ods .wks and the book and all the spreadsheets (and a DeltaCAD macro also) are in ZIP form here. That cubicShadows spreadsheet covers H, V, V-DEC, Q, A, and P dials as well as altitude and azimuth. It has garphical depictions in the Excel and Open Office versions. Like Simple Shadows but includes multi face dial design, 54 pages. If you like it, buy Illustrating Time's Shadow |
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| ILLUSTRATING TIME'S SHADOW appendices ~ This is 170+ pages of the complete appendices of books 1 & 2 from Illustrating Shadows and Illustrating More Shadows, complete unabridged and expanded. If you like this, please buy the online download or the CD of the book "Illustrating Time's Shadow" itself. The appendices are a must for anyone working with sundials, and are free! This is the set of appendices for book three "Illustrating Time's Shadow" which takes the first two books, blends them, and adds more new material. |
| Free booklets and supplements click here |
| FREE ~ DECLINING SHADOWS ~ Back by demand ~ how to draw calendar curves (declination curves). |
| FREE ~ CUTTING SHADOWS ~ ISBN 0-9765286-2-2 SUNDIAL CUTOUT BOOKLET ~ Equatorial, polar, east and a west meridian, and 2 horizontal dials. Has EOT as well as Italian line data. Great for kids of ALL ages. Has popup dials also, see below. Some of these are in the main book. These templates are cut out, ahve protractors built in, and work for all latitudes. |
| FREE ~ PROGRAMMING BASIC. Some notes on converting trigonometry to procedural code, constraining lines to boundaries, such as hour lines to calendar lines, and the human interface in a structured code environment. Specifically for DeltaCAD macros. Also see the supplemental documents for derivation of things like the astrolabe formula. |
| FREE ~ POPUP SHADOWS ~ Paper cutout 3d popup dial for latitude 32 (two of them) and how to change latitude see picture here! Extracted from CUTTING SHADOWS see above. |
The following books are not as current nor as complete as the materials in the books and the CD provided with them. The CD always has the latest
material. What follows here are abbreviated from the books whose sale supports this web site. Some may have some typos, the books and CD that
are for sale are much more complete, definitive, and have typos corrected.
material. What follows here are abbreviated from the books whose sale supports this web site. Some may have some typos, the books and CD that
are for sale are much more complete, definitive, and have typos corrected.
| July 24, 2010 |
| SIMPLE SHADOWS ~ ISBN 0-9765286-5-7 uses simpleShadows.xls .ods .wks and the book and all the spreadsheets are in ZIP form here . Like Micro Shadows but it includes theory, tables, and templates, 45 pages. If you like it, try CUBIC SHADOWS, or better still, buy Illustrating Time's Shadow |
| Free book all about the analemma, and free software to design them Free book about nomograms in general and the DeltaCAD and Lazarus (free) macros and programs that are free to build them Free book of the Illustrating More Shadows nomograms for all sorts of dialing needs. |
| download Cubic Shadows if you want to go beyond the horizontal dials |
| Micro Shadows is as simple as it gets, if you want more, download Simple Shadows |
| There are four main spreadsheets, microShadows, simpleShadows, cubicShadows, and illustrating-shadows, available in Excel (.xls), Open Office (.ods), and MS Works form (.wks). Each is more complex than the last. NOTE: MS Works only supports the first three, it does not support the main and highly advanced "illustrating-shadows" spreadsheet.. |
| Illustrating Time's Shadow ISBN 0-9765286-8-1 plus 0-9765286-9-X Lib Cong 2005900674 plus 2006930654 Merges Illustrating Shadows and Illustrating More Shadows, deletes duplicated material, and techniques that are complex and replaced by easier methods, adds new material. Hands on, empirical, geometric, trigonometric, CAD, and spreadsheet dial design for small dials plus garden dials using common masonry supplies, clay, and glass, with emphasis on many calendar line techniques, and inclined decliners, while providing details on the use of DeltaCAD programming including the animation of many sheets as parameters vary. Case studies abound with associated problems solved, and cover the infamous inclined decliner, as well as all the other kinds of outdoor dials. The printed book comes with a CD of booklets, spreadsheets, VRML/WRL files, templates, etc with the printed book. The CD has all books and booklets and programs along with source code. You can get the printed book and CD, just the CD, or an online download here. |