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.
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?
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.
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.
awesome post and thread
clocks for me were an entry point to font creation and broadcast design. they make a great platform for design and coding experimentation
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"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
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how about a pac-man running around the dial consuming your seconds as you watch? wooka wooka wooka wooka...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mengenlehreuhr
Nice clocks though.
http://24times.gysin-vanetti.com
The “cuckoo” one is interactive.
Corpus Clock - Wikipedia https://share.google/aAjMb15aeaVvHLJFa