easy to use spreadsheet - most dial functions - horizontal, vertical, and vertical decliner with full altitude and azimuth




full featured spreadsheet - all dial types, including analemmatic and astrolabe, calendar and analemma data, etc  



astronomically accurate EOT spreadsheet
IMPORTANT WEB PAGES
ANALEMMA                                               Notes and programs for drawing analemmas, uses DeltaCAD
                                                as well as various spreadsheets
ANALEMMATIC DIAL                                Has an Excel and Open Office simplified spreadsheet     
ASTROLABE                                            Notes and programs and spreadsheets for astrolabes
CALENDAR                                              Notes and programs for drawing calendar (declination) curves
CASE STUDY PAGE                                 Pictures and notes on specific dials designed and built
DeltaCAD                                                  Macros for almost every dial type and dialling need
FreeCAD                                                  Macros for almost every dial type and dialling need
EQUATION OF TIME (EOT)                      Notes and programs for the equation of time
ITALIAN LINES                                          Notes and programs for drawing Italian (sunset) lines
NOCTURNAL DIALS (STARS)                  Notes and templates for star clocks, good to about 4 minutes
NOMOGRAMS                                          Usable nomograms, and programs and notes for drawing them
PROGRAMMING                                       ADA              ALGOL          COBOL            CPP          DeltaCAD   
                                                FORTRAN     IBM 1401       IBM 360           IBM 7090    
                                                JAVA             BASIC            LAZARUS         LISP         OCTAVE
                                                 PASCAL        PDA               PYTHON          SCILAB    TURBOCAD         
                                                VISUALBASIC   NanoCAD     FreeCAD       Powerdraw    
SOFTWARE                                             free Acrobat reader
                                                 free Open Office (almost 100% compatible with Word and Excel)
VRML AND CAD                                       VRML STUFF                     CAD STUFF        
WALL DECLINATION                                How to measure a wall's declination from true N, S, E, or W
Excel                                                                               
illustrating-shadows-eot.xls       
Excel                                                
simpleShadows.xls                                
Excel                                               
cubicShadows.xls                                   
Excel                                                                         
illustratingShadows.xls             

BOOKS

Simple Shadows                                           46 pages of how to draft a horizontal dial along with why and how
                                                            uses simpleShadows.xls

Cubic Shadows                                             54 pages of building a cube dial
                                                            uses cubicShadows.xls

Cutting Shadows                                          some pager cutout sundials

Illustrating Time's Shadow book                400 pages on why and how to build almost any conceivable dial
                                                             uses illustrating-shadows.xls

Illustrating Time's Shadow Appendices   180 pages of free appendices you may download

Illustrating Time's Shadow  Supplemental Shadows  of well written articles

Programming Shadows                              some 400 pages of programming techniques in many languages and where to get
                                                            compilers and so on for low or no cost.
S I T E    M A P
-- 1 ILLUSTRATING TIMES SHADOW
-- 2 Small Books and EOTs and FAQ
-- 3 Case studies
-- 4  ANALEMMA [xls bas]
-- 4 CALENDAR [bas]
-- 4 DIAL FURNITURE plus Italian [bas xls]
-- 5 NOMOGRAM [xls tcw bas pas]
3D Printers
BasicX11 [android]
Blender [py]
Calculators - - HP35S   CasioFx9860g
DeltaCAD [basic]
Excel
FreeCAD [python]
Java
JavaScript
JustBasic
Lazarus [pascal]
Legacy [ADA - COBOL - FORTRAN - ALGOL]
Mainframes [IBM1401 - IBM360 - IBM7094]
MSworks95
Nanocad [vbs  js]
Pascal
PDA
PowerDraw [pascal]
PowerPoint
ProgeCAD [lisp]
Python
Scientific [Scilab - Octave - Euler]
smartPhone
TurboCAD [vbs, ppm]
Visual Basic
Visual CPP
vrml worlds and files (simon.wrl to start)
Relating some CD folders to similar web pages here
To the left is an index of the folders on the CD you
get if you purchase it on the PayPal page.

The CD is very well organized, and has a lot more
information than is on this website.

The links to the left are links to pages on this web
site, and as such are in no way a true reflection of
what is on the CD.

This page is best used as an index or site map only!