| ILLUSTRATING SHADOWS focusing on education and interesting practical aspects of sundial design FREE BOOKS |
| FREE ~ MICRO SHADOWS ~ ISBN 0-9765286-7-3 Build A Horizontal Sun Dial. A 14 page booklet on build then fix a horizontal dial. If you like it, try Simple Shadows or better still buy Illustrating Shadows! |
| Illustrating Shadows about 300 pages of hands on, empirical, geometric, trigonometric, CAD, and spreadsheet dial design with 100 pages of charts, tables, formulae, and lists of useful information THIRD EDITION ~ Table of contents. This numbered edition has expanded tables, more formulae, and more detailed chapters on CAD, vrml. The best book on gnomonics. You get a free CD of booklets, spreadsheets, VRML/WRL files, templates, etc, with the book. Buy here with PayPal or, Personal check - see here. NASS and BSS special member price, buy here with paypal which has the details. |
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| Email comments or questions to the author at: illustratingshadows at yahoo dot com |
| FREE ~ CUBIC SHADOWS ~ ISBN 0-9765286-6-5 Like Simple Shadows but includes multi face dial design. If you like it, get Illustrating Shadows |
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| FREE ~ SIMPLE SHADOWS ~ ISBN 0-9765286-5-7 Like Micro Shadows but includes theory, tables, and templates, 45 pages. If you like it, get Illustrating Shadows |
| FREE ~ Supplemental articles and booklets are here... also here are some case studies FREE ~ Spreadsheets are here... The reference-spreadsheets.xls spreadsheet has been totally rewritten as illustrating-shadows.xls with more features, including inclining decliners, better analamettic dials, and an almanac page, with location data entered in only one place, and hyperlinks added. |
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| The follow on book is ILLUSTRATING MORE SHADOWS, of about 300 pages Whereas Illustrating Shadows focuses on theory and small dials and detailed dial construction, this follow on book focuses on larger outdoor garden sundials using commonly available building materials from any building supply store. There are chapters dedicated to both cube decliners for the garden (16 by 16 inches) and to inclined decliners, and to calendar line techniques, with all the design methods, and construction notes from start to finish. Inclined decliners will be a piece of cake with this book, and fun to do, and the spreadsheet for the book was completely rewritten to facilitate the process. There is more on TurboCAD, and significant coverage of DeltaCAD programming as well as animation of DeltaCAD drawings as parameters vary. The book is available now. A few sample pages are here. The appendices have calendar line formulae as well as formulae for the planispheric astrolabe, table of contents is 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. |
| 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.
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.
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