| ILLUSTRATING SHADOWS focusing on education and interesting practical aspects of sundial design |
programming C C++ CPP sundials sun dials
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| C for the Palm Pilot the main web page for the latest PocketC is here an earlier version with less features is also available (this is also to be found in the C page) FREE ~ One compiler version is free, the other is much updated, has a 45 day trial, and is available for a very reasonable cost. This file has the documentation and the source code for a h-dial and v-dial programs, some text output, some text and graphics, also a nice almanac where you enter the month and day, it gives you EOT, decl, hourly azi and alt, and sunrise/set data. AND a vertical decliner! AND an EOT and declination for 4 days on either side of a given day in a given month. Some are packaged as xxxxx.prc executables (the xxxxx.pc is the IDE source code), some are compiled on PocketC on the PDA and executed from PocketC. In other words, two dials, two types of output, and two ways of running the programs. It is so simple that I did not add lots of notes. These dial programs work and have been validated, and you can amend the code for other dial types. Updated PocketC notes are here May 18, 2009, and the zip file with those notes and the C program for h and v-dials for the PDA are here May 18, 2009. Web page on how to synch with Vista. |
| Email comments or questions to the author at: illustratingshadows at yahoo dot com |
| MAIN TURBO-CAD FILE PAGE ( vbs macros and tcw files also) |
| August 26, 2009 |
| Tested on Documents To Go 7.006 and on 10.0020 and the graphics on the Palm are supported, for example in the EOT astro sheet and the figure of 8 analemma sheet. Click the graph button below the spreadsheet cell data entry area. |
| The illustrating-shadows.xls spreadsheets have been reworked for PDAs, specifically the PalmPilot. The vertical decliner spreadsheet is shown to the left on a Palm T3. See notes above for PDA hotsynch using win64 Windows Vista May 17, 2009 Display output has been reworked, hyperlinks removed and the sheets adapted for their removal, changes in formulae not supported by Documents To Go, size changes, and so on. The h, v, and v-dec dials are supported, three EOT sheets provided, analemmatic, armillary and equatorial dial calendar and hour data supported, calendar curves, and so on. |
| a2.2 suns LHA.xls a2.3 long-to-time.xls a2.4 julian days.xls a2.6 time-zones.xls a2.9 mag to true.xls a3.1 v-h dials.xls a3.1 v-h dials with graphs.xls a3.2 ceiling data.xls NEW November 30, 2008 a4.1 suns altitude.xls a4.2 suns azimuth.xls a4.3 analemmatic dial.xls a4.4 calendar curves.xls a5.1 vertical decliner.xls a5.1 vdec sws formula.xls NEW November 22, 2008, and notes are here a6.3 sunrise set EOT~Lat.xls a6.4 sunset and italian lines.xls a9.9 graph hour lines.xls |
| a0.0 almanac.xls Nov 30, 2008 a0.0 analemma figure of eight.xls Revised notes a0.0 astro compass.xls a0.0 inclined decliner.xls a0.0 planispheric astrolabe.xls a0.0 unknown dial.xls a0.0 wall-declination.xls a1.1 trig.xls a2.1 EOT astro mini.xls a2.1 EOT astro.xls a2.1 EOT other.xls a2.10 meridian polar hour-calendar.xls a2.11 daily declination.xls a2.12 equatorial calendar radius.xls a2.13 armillary calendar line distances.xls |
| A collection of spreadsheets ready for Documents To Go on a PDA (this is also to be found in the Excel page) |
| Excel for the Palm Pilot (great on the PC too !) |
| The actual programs on this web site show not only the graphical depictions, but also the tables of hour line angles. |
| CAUTION: Windows Vista does not support the Palm PDA by USB or WIFI hotsynch. It should hotsynch with Bluetooth, I finally got it to work but I am not sure how. It took a couple of restarts, and turning things on and off. Then Vista asked for a code, the PDA also, and all sorts of permission. It did finally synch. See here. However, since then not much luck. This is one of the many mysteries of the universe. |
| Illustrating Time's Shadow ~ ISBN 0-9765286-8-1 plus 0-9765286-9-X ~ Lib Cong 2005900674 plus 2006930654 Merges Illustrating Shadows and Illustrating More Shadows, deletes duplicated material, and techniques that are complex and replaced by easier methods, adds new material. Hands on, empirical, geometric, trigonometric, CAD, and spreadsheet dial design for small dials plus 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. Get CD here. Case studies abound with associated problems solved, and cover the infamous inclined decliner, as well as all the other kinds of outdoor dials. You get a free CD of booklets, spreadsheets, VRML/WRL files, templates, etc with the book. The CD has all books and booklets and programs along with source code. PayPal here to buy. |