Thursday, August 25, 2011

Paper craft sundial

Here are instructions for a paper craft sundial I built last night.  The hard part was doing the trigonometry for getting the gnomon to be at the right angle after folding--I hadn't done much trigonometry for a while, especially in regard to laying out a three dimensional object (the gnomon is wider at bottom than at the top).  With the script complete, construction takes about fifteen minutes.

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  1. Thanks so much for this. My daughter came home on Friday saying he needs a sundial by Monday. With no instructions on how to construct one or how accurate it has to be. I looked up the latitude and longitude for her school and we're [printing out this one so she can decorate it.

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