ILLUSTRATING SHADOWS
focusing on education and interesting practical aspects of sundial design
Illustrating Shadows ~  ISBN 0-9765286-8-1  ~  Lib Cong 2005900674

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. The best book on gnomonics. Much new material.  You get a free CD of booklets,
spreadsheets, VRML/WRL files, templates, etc with the book. FOR A FREE SAMPLE... try Simple Shadows     PayPal here to buy.
                                     
Illustrating More Shadows ~ ISBN 0-9765286-9-X ~ Lib Cong 2006930654
This book continues Illustrating Shadows, 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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MAIN VIRTUAL REALITY PAGE                                                
MAIN TURBO-CAD FILE PAGE     ( vbs macros and tcw files also)                                
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C sundial programs

C notes and compilers
The GNU compiler here is recommended.

SOME NOTES ON PROGRAMMING IN "C" (CPP or C++)

There is one free C or C++ compiler available with which this program has been tested.

      http://www.bloodshed.net/devcpp.html                about the C products
      http://www.bloodshed.net/dev/devcpp.html         download options

If you have no C nor C++ at all, then you should download the full system

      Dev-C++ 5.0 beta 9.2 (4.9.9.2) (9.0 MB) with Mingw/GCC 3.4.2     
      Dev-C++ version 4.9.9.2, includes full Mingw compiler system with
      GCC 3.4.2 and GDB 5.2.1 See NEWS.txt for changes in this release.
NOTE: This does not consider the Microsoft
Visual C program