To help you visualize the Sails, you can also use string stretched between your planned attachment points. The first step is to measure. Then make a scale drawing of the area you want shaded. 1/4 (or 1/8) inch = 1 foot. Then cut out scale drawings of the ready-made shade sails. Rotate them around to get ideas for the lay-out. Imagine a straight line from the center of the shade sail through the corner ring, that is where you need to put the attachment point.
Angle Bisectors in a Triangle. The definition of the angle bisector of a triangle is a line segment that bisects one of the vertex angles of a triangle. In general, an angle bisector is equidistant from the sides of the angle when measured along a segment perpendicular to the sides of the angle. Click on image for interactive Geometer's Sketchpad version.
We use perpendicular bisectors to create a right angle at the midpoint of a segment. Any point on the perpendicular bisector is equidistant from the endpoints of the given segment. The point at which the perpendicular bisectors of a triangle meet, or the circumcenter, is equidistant from the vertices of the triangle. On the other hand, angle bisectors simply split one angle into two congruent angles. Points on angle bisectors are equidistant from the sides of the given angle.