Placed my cursor at the top of the hour peak on the 'Peaks' clock. Few moments later, it shifted slightly to the left. Had a bit of existential dread as I saw time slipping away.
Oh, I clicked the link. My life is almost 50% complete.
However, the expected lifetimes are obviously too low. It expects me to end up at approximately age 80, but that is an underestimation. I dont know if the lifetimes that are used are just outdated, or if they lack expected mortality improvements.
The binary clock reminds me of a similar bar you sometimes saw on videotapes being played back on TV broadcasts. They didn't look like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical_interval_timecode , since these are stripes, not blocks. Maybe specific to PAL?
Here's what I cooked up, in the spirit of the original I invite folks to modify it to their liking. Currently it has an hours shape, an hours-and-minutes shape, and an hours-and-minutes-and-seconds shape.
Like those insane gear ratio videos on YouTube... You know the final gear is turning, logically, but the fact that the Sun will eat the Earth long before the gear completes a single turn lends a strange perspective.
very cool. reminds me of an old iPhone clock app called "hms" that displayed a rectangular prism, and each dimension (x, y, z) corresponded with the hour, minute and second, so the shape would grow over time before resetting one or more dimensions. it got delisted years ago for some reason but i used to love it as a "nightstand mode" clock.
Nice! @qq66 did you make this spiralling clock? https://www.shadertoy.com/view/flGGDy
It's trippy, and I love how the spiral arms rearrange every few seconds.
The Hanoi clock represents time by mapping disk positions to binary bits - each legal tower state uniquely encodes one moment, with the smallest disk moving every minute creating the beautiful recursive pattern where larger disks move exponentially less frequently.
Love the binary and wave clocks, instantly got me thinking about how it could work as a subtle graphical element in a landing page footer or something like that.
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Nice clocks though.
However, the expected lifetimes are obviously too low. It expects me to end up at approximately age 80, but that is an underestimation. I dont know if the lifetimes that are used are just outdated, or if they lack expected mortality improvements.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mengenlehreuhr
but lots of dots, so my mind couldn't help but wander ':D
https://codepen.io/rezmason/pen/empBWgY?editors=1111
Beyond some basic style variation, I think there's a lot of room for experimentation with shapes and their centers of rotation.
"Each droplet forms and falls over a period of about a decade."
"it is expected there is enough pitch in the funnel to allow it to continue for at least another hundred years"
I guess with enough pitch you an make a millennium-scale "water" (liquid) clock?
Here's a one-shot recreation of "Against the Run" (https://listart.mit.edu/art-artists/against-run-2019): https://g.co/gemini/share/c1dcfbd9cf9a