Sundials from Toroid Surfaces

Year: 2011 Authors: Stephen Luecking

Core claim

Intersecting shadow planes with curved toroidal surfaces yields accurate, elegant sundial hour and day lines on forms such as a torus and horn cyclide.

Topics

sundial design, shadow planes model, toroidal surfaces, 3-D modeling

Domains

geometry, surface intersections, quartic surfaces, analemma, generative design, digital media, bronze rendering, sculptural form

Methods

shadow planes construction, 3-D modeling, surface intersection, dial projection

Media

3-D modeling program, bronze, torus, horn cyclide

Source status

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