Shadows
Shadows in its basic level is free.
It comes with a powerful set of functions and a full documentation. If you want to discover further functions, you can acquire a license of Shadows Expert or Shadows Pro. The features of Shadows include:
- Plane sundials with polar style (horizontal, vertical declining, equatorial, polar, meridian)
- Sundial drawn to scale 1, of any size and any orientation or reclination,
- Compatible with any location on Earth, in northern or southern hemisphere (2800 locations installed),
- Style drawn to scale 1,
- Tables of coordinates of hour line points and declination arcs,
- Drawing of solar or mean hours, with or without longitude correction,
- Text frames that can be moved and resized on the sundial, with preinstalled list of mottoes,
- Equation of time drawn in various forms,
- Drawing of a protractor and azimuth circle,
- Full online help, user interface translated in 14 languages,
- and more...
Shadows Expert
Shadows Expert is a level dedicated to people who want to access to more advanced functions in the program. Shadows Expert brings the following features in addition to Shadows:
- Analemmatic sundials,
- Cylindrical sundials,
- Ephemeris tables,
- Drawing of italic and babylonic hours,
- Insertion of image frames on the sundial,
- Exportation of data and images,
- Drawing of the construction layout of a sundial,
- Simulation of the roof's shadow on the sundial,
- Change of orientation and reclination of a sundial,
- Tool for the determination of the wall's declination,
- Direction rose,
- and more...
Shadows Pro
Shadows Pro is the most advanced level and is made for professional sundial makers and power users. Shadows Pro brings the following features in addition to Shadows Expert:
- Planispheric and universal astrolabes,
- Vertical declining analemmatic sundial,
- Bifilar sundials,
- Drawing of azimuth and altitude lines on the sundial,
- Sidereal and astronomical hour lines,
- Solar graph (azimuth-altitude) with horizon mask,
- Export of drawing layout in WMF and DXF (AutoCAD),
- Export of animations in AVI,
- Tool for the calculation of sundial parameters from a photo,
- Efficiency graph of a solar pannel,
- etc.
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