About

About

In the summer 2003 I discovered the world of sundials and quick found that the community of sundial maker is the next great community after the telescope makers. Practically here is only once good dial design package called Shadows, so I decided to write my own powerful design program called SUNDI, that was first demonstrated in autumn 2003.

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