SPREADSHEETS Excel, Kingsoft, and Open Office ANDROID xls and tools APPENDICES complete DIAL FURNITURE Analemmas Calendar curves Italian lines BOOK updates |
| FREE CASE STUDIES ~ The standalone CD, or the CD with the book has these case studies and more A 500 lb cube declining dial, 11 pages about 600k, all details start to finish. A large analemmatic garden dial. An inclining decliner. A vertical decliner neighborhood project using empirical methods, shows Italian hour lines, 5 pages, under 200k. A circular paver equatorial, a clay pipe liner armillary. The open book dial or dual gnomonless dial back to back. An almost 45 degree declining four faced cube dial. The details are complete, however extensive notes are in Illustrating Time's Shadow. |
| This website and its free books, booklets, programs, case studies, take a lot of effort to design, build, buy the CD, or and maintain. If you like what you see, please consider acquiring Illustrating Time's Shadow. For example, the DeltaCAD macro for the astrolabe was a first in astrolabe programming in that you get the source code and explanatory notes, and it took hundreds of hours, and it is free to you. Pieces have been published before, but this web site was the first to show in a very few pages the complete design of the astrolabe. The online download and CD purchases provide the incentive for further development. And help when I teach classes on sundials at the local university. |
| FREE BOOKS (if you like this site's items, buy the CD or online download!) |
| Changes and Updates to the web site, software, or books. |
| Except for the printed books, the Supplements and Programming Shadows, the CD and the online book, everything is free. Online download and CD purchases help pay for this site. This may be the largest collection of sundial software in more systems and languages and written by one person (me), all my source code is open source. |
| FREE SUNDIAL PROGRAMS, SOFTWARE (many systems/languages) also has other useful software |
| see stained glass |
| TurboCAD vbs, ppm |
| LAZARUS and its ALLDIALS in zip file and large graph version also |
EXCEL .xls works in Open Office and in Kingsoft Documents To Go most common dial design using xls or ods, and a DeltaCAD macro also is in a ZIP file called "cubicShadows" |
| SUNDIAL BUYERS BEWARE ~ Before you buy a sundial click here and here and "What sundials not to buy", and "What to do now you bought it" |
| Nomograms (use them, and even build them) and Dialing Scales and |
| Online dial design ~ My JAVA hDial, vDial, vDec, declCurves, and almanac ~ or try one of the software systems in many computer languages including IBM 1401 and 360 simulators with sundial pograms. The DeltaCAD, NanoCAD, and FreeCAD page have free programs, and the Lazarus page, ans SciLab, Octave, and Euler pages also. |
| Spreadsheets [notes] |
| Legacy computers with GUI simulators and sundial programs. |
| Legacy languages |
| Recent languages |
| Scientific languages |
| Hand held calculators |
| JAVA and Java Script |
| GRAPHICAL SOLUTIONS |
| Download SIMPLE SHADOWS if you use these sundial programs, it helps to build a sundial ~ FREE of course... |
| Virtual Reality sundials ~ ~ Check this page to see a sundial observatory in user manipulatable virtual reality. It tells you how to download the free Cortona web browser plug-in, and there are two standalone browsers available also. |
| PAYPAL and prices with shipping costs. The CD and online downloads help keep this website afloat. |
sundial building making how build make astrolabe deltacad turbocad gnomonics clay stained glass eot scilab octave euler LISP progecad legacy programming excel spreadsheet parametric script VBS fortran cobol pascal vrml basic IBM1401 IBM360 SPS FORTRAN nomogram analemma
| Details of other programs, and details of my other programs & output |
| Book update info... If you bought one of my books printed, on CD, or online, you can re download them at any time. The current book is Illustrating Time's Shadow just use your userid and password if you have it, or email me from the email you used before to get a new userid and password. |
| Details of free books..... |
| see paper popups |
| Newer language systems |
| THE DIALS SHOWN HERE CAN BE BUILT WHERE YOU LIVE WITH "ILLUSTRATING TIME'S SHADOW" using old fashioned ways, as well as the free computer programs provided on this web site. The online and the CD purchases keep this web site afloat, and growing. Once you acquire the book, you can re-download it, with any updates! |
| PICTURES large clay and glass dials small wood/pvc dials artistic photos of dials author's antique or collectibles 3d dial pics here, and here author's stained glass non sundial vrml models if you have Cortona |
| Details of Microsoft Office Excel spreadsheets. They work in Open Office (free), and Kingsoft. |
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| CAD language systems FREE ~ NanoCAD, FreeCAD, ProgeCAD |
| The simplest free book and software is Simple Shadows |
| F R E E |
| You get the source code to all my programs, ALLDIALS, IBM 360 and 1401 simulators, etc, etc. |
| see PDA page |
| vertical decliner, calendar and Italian lines, and daylight saving time |
| shepherd's dial |
| B O O K S o n t h i s w e b s i t e (most are free) |
| M I S C S T U F F |
| S O F T W A R E ~ all my software is free |
reclining meridian dial
| ILLUSTRATING TIME'S SHADOW printed, on CD, or online download are for sale BUT MOST STUFF IS FREE ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Illustrating Time's Shadow online download $10 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ The book on a CD $15 within the USA $20 outside USA ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Illustrating Time's Shadow and appendices all printed & CD NASS/BSS member discount for price see here ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Illustrating Time's Shadow printed and the CD but no printed appendices NASS/BSS member discount for price see here ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ To check purchase prices use the PayPal page. To purchase any of the above, use the PayPal buttons ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ |
| FOR SALE using PayPal |
| T O P I C S |
| ABBREVIATIONS: h-dial (horizontal), v-dial (vertical), m-dial (meridian dial), p-dial (polar dial), q-dial (equatorial), etc. |
| WHAT KIND OF SUNDIAL TO BUILD Before you build a sundial, decide what kind is best. Latitudes between the equator and about 15 degrees N or S would benefit from an equatorial (q) or polar (p) dial more than from a horizontal (h) dial design. On the equator a horizontal (h-dial) is a polar dial so use a p-dial design. At the poles, an h-dial is an equatorial dial, so use a q-dial design ~ run the DeltaCAD h-dial at low and high latitudes for fun, they approach the polar dial and q-dial. |
| horizontal dials at various latitudes check appendix 1 of the free to download appendices |
| I D E A S a n d H I N T S |
| see cubic dials |
| see astrocompass |
| Open Book dial |
| A ceramic floor tile for a v-dial |
| APPENDICES ~ are free complete appendices here SUPPLEMENTAL SHADOWS a collection of well written articles scratch/mass dials, kinds of time, kinds of declination, old wive's trick, new formulae, more dial furniture, and so on Programming Shadows ~ programming languages, systems, and sample working code, and algorithms. |
| Relating solar hour angle (equatorial dial) to horizontal, vertical,and polar (and meridian) dials. |
| ANDROID xls and tools |
north facing dial
| Saltillo tile dials above left ~~ vDec above center ~~ inc dec above right ~~~ hDial with an EOT below left ~~ true south vDial marked in Persian see case studies |
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| Saltillo tile dial |
| a cube dial on a column in Phoenix |
| true south vDial |
| THE PRINTED BOOKS are in stock. For prices see PayPal page here |
| scratch or Mass dials I grew up with in Somerset UK |
| vertical great decliner (almost east or west but not quite) |
| also Supplemental Shadows and Programming Shadows are also on the CD as well as online downlaod but the appendices are still free |
Information? |
| EVERYTHING IS FREE here except for the big 400 page book Illustrating Time's Shadow, the 300 page programing methods book, and the 100 page Supplemental Book. And you get all that for only $10 (online download), more for the CD, and even more for the printed books. The CD and printed books also get you the online download, by the way. |
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WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO DO . . . .
SOME USEFUL TOPICS ~ The CAD programs all have sundial macros (Basic, LISP, Python, VBS, parametric part, etc)
A VIRTUAL "YOU WALK AROUND" TOUR OF JAIPUR SUNDIAL OBSERVATORY ~ AND OTHER USER MANIPULATABLE DIAL THINGS. It needs
the certified VRML plugin from Cortona which is very easy to install, and uses Active-X when a vrml figure is invoked. It takes 10 to 20
seconds to load a VRML object in ActiveX so do not panic if it takes a bit of time.
the certified VRML plugin from Cortona which is very easy to install, and uses Active-X when a vrml figure is invoked. It takes 10 to 20
seconds to load a VRML object in ActiveX so do not panic if it takes a bit of time.
| Equatorial dial at an equinox |
| a polar dial in the air projecting onto a wall |
| DeltaCAD macros |
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| Illustrating Time's Shadow ISBN 0-9765286-8-1 & 0-9765286-9-X Lib Cong 2005900674 & 2006930654 Merges Illustrating Shadows and Illustrating More Shadows, deletes obtuse methods, adds more material. This is 400 pages, contents here, and with it (printed, CD, or online download) you may download the Supplemental Shadows book itself (120 pages, contents here) as well as Programming Shadows book itself (290 pages, contents here) Hands on, empirical, geometric, trigonometric, CAD, spreadsheet, and tabular dial design for small dials, and garden dials using common material, as well as clay, glass, and copper, with emphasis on calendar line techniques, and Babylonian/Italian lines, while providing details on the use of DeltaCAD, FreeCAD, NanoCAD, and web Java Script 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 files, templates, etc. The CD has all books, booklets and programs along with source code. You can get the CD, or an online download (Acrobat 7 or later) here. |
| THE PRINTED BOOKS are perfect bind, not spiral bound |
| The top of the line is for sale and is Illustrating Time's Shadow, see to the right. |
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GRAPHICAL CALCULATORS ~ (smart phone lat/long display can take quite a few seconds)
| ILLUSTRATING SHADOWS books, aids, and software on this site can help you make dials like those below ~ ~ ~ a journey of discovery ~ sundials and how to make them ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ and how to use, or make, the things that can help design them ~ |
