| ILLUSTRATING SHADOWS focusing on education and interesting practical aspects of sundial design FREE CAD OR VRML STUFF |
| Illustrating Shadows ~ ISBN 0-9765286-8-1 ~ Lib Cong 2005900674 about 320 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 edition has expanded tables, more formulae, and more detailed chapters on CAD, vrml. You get a free CD of booklets, spreadsheets, VRML/WRL files, templates, etc with the book. PayPal here to buy. Illustrating More Shadows ~ ISBN 0-9765286-9-X ~ Lib Cong 2006930654 This book of about 320 pages continues Illustrating Shadows, Table of Contents here, and focuses on 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. Sample here. Get CD here. |
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| ISB and ISA VRML MODELS built with the ParallelGraphics ISB and ISA programs VRML sundials user rotatable 3d some stuff in the main virtual reality page is detailed below First, you need a VRML browser plug-in, click here to find the plug-in you can use, and it is probably Cortona, so click here. It is less than 2mb, works with Netscape, IE, and Mozilla. A standalone vrml viewer is here. Works well for models, but for full worlds use the browser and plug-in. A guide to building VRML with TurboCAD deluxe is here. Have fun with VRML. This is an exciting and under used feature of the web. I have used ISB for all the virtual worlds, ISB is from Parallel Graphics, who have a repository of worlds here. WINDOWS: Browser: Cortona (4.2 and 5.0) Cosmo Scene builder: ISB MAC: Browser: Cortona OSX and Cortona MAC Cosmo Axel Scene builder: AXEL caution: Cosmo may not work with current Internet Explorer. caution: Octaga may not support the hyperlinks to other worlds success: Cortona works with compressed wrl files and supports hyperlinks JustBASIC dial programs While these are not CAD, these source code programs mirror their DeltaCAD equivalent macros For those without TurboCAD (great for 3d modeling), or DeltaCAD (great for programmed 2d layouts), or Excel (great dialling spreadsheets), JustBASIC is a free BASIC IDE (integrated development environment) and these programs mirror their DeltaCAD counterparts, but display tabular data as opposed to graphical dial plate layouts. |
| Email comments or questions to the author at: illustratingshadows at yahoo dot com |
| TurboCAD Deluxe (has full 2d and 3d modeling) ($99 when on sale, $149 other times) their main web page is here vrml models (require the Cortona plugin, see here) Armillary Equatorial etc - see the vrml pages |
| My main TurboCAD files page (free) includes macros and programming notes (TurboCAD VBS sdk stuff) MAIN vrml page - full worlds (built with ISB and ISA) and separate sundial models built with TurboCAD saved as vrml 2 - some linked to in the worlds also |
The latest CAD vrml
model is the vertical
decliner N and S faces,
see also case studies.
model is the vertical
decliner N and S faces,
see also case studies.
with the Cortona plugin,
this is user rotatable etc.
this is user rotatable etc.
| Scilab, Euler, and Octave ( free, has a scripting language, while not really a CAD system, they each have amazing programming abilities.) |
| 2008 |
| DeltaCAD (is 2d only, but has a scripting language) ($39 approx) their main web page is here |
| My main DeltaCAD files page (free) includes macros and programming notes animated dials, almanacs, and many dial types |
| ProgeCAD (is free, has the LISP scripting language) their main web page is here |
| My LISP files page (free) includes program and notes |