. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. more than inspec-tion of it. It is obvious that the means hereadopted for obtaining the lines ofshadow are precisely similar to thoseused in the preceding example. Inthis, however, the sections of the ca-pital parallel to the direction of thelight are made on the elevation, andit will be seen that many of them arenot required to obtain an accurateboundary of the lines of shadowsought; for after having obtainedtliose points from which the longestshad
. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. more than inspec-tion of it. It is obvious that the means hereadopted for obtaining the lines ofshadow are precisely similar to thoseused in the preceding example. Inthis, however, the sections of the ca-pital parallel to the direction of thelight are made on the elevation, andit will be seen that many of them arenot required to obtain an accurateboundary of the lines of shadowsought; for after having obtainedtliose points from which the longestshadow falls, and on the other sidethose where the line of shadow com-mences, a curve line of an elliptical nature connects the jjoints found. If the drawing to1)6 made be on a large scale, it may then be worth the arcliitects while to increasethenumber of points whcrefrom tlie shadow is to be projected, so as to produce the greatestpossible accuracy in the representation. 2482. The shadows of an Ionic cajjital are given in fg. The shadow of the voluteon the column is obtained by any number of lines A A, HH, CC, &c. from its different.
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