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Thursday night geek-tech question!
Anybody know of a "shadow calculator"? You know, something where you could punch in your city, date and time and figure out that a six foot high statue of a flying squirrel will cast a ten foot shadow. Something like that. Seems like it would come in handy. Anybody? Buuuuuehler? Oct 19 06 10:55 pm Link Chip Morton wrote: I'll get back to you when I figure out what a calcultor is. Oct 19 06 11:03 pm Link Oct 19 06 11:05 pm Link The military has used this principal since WWII for analyzing aerial photos. I can't remember where I've seen variations of it, but what your are asking is easy to obtain. Try wikapedia maybe.  Oct 19 06 11:08 pm Link Oct 19 06 11:19 pm Link It depends how involved you want to get. The simplest stuff is going to be just from Solar ephemeral tables, (navigational almanac) but there are several AutoCAD and other CAD software bits that you can use to model shadows. Oct 19 06 11:41 pm Link |
