I guess the only downside is the minutes in the middle of each hour will feel like they are going slower since the end of the hand isn't moving as fast?
honestly though who cares about those minutes? I want HD time at the start and end of the hour!
Okay I couldn’t sleep so I just solved the issue. Rotation needs to be based on ‘parent’ epicycle rotations, which is not really a behaviour of epicycles usually but whatever, this makes a cool clock. I’ll fix it up with numbers tomorrow and share it.
Saw that my epicycle clock was getting noticed a bit again, so I finally took the time to make it use vector graphics - you can zoom in and it still looks good!
A friend commented that if the curve were inside out, then the hands would be coincident on the hour and opposite on the half-hour. This might feel more natural. Maybe?
(All the analog clocks in my house are counterclocks, so it’s not like I can be sure what feels natural.)
That's not a counter-clock, it's an anti-clock. You can tell because it goes anti-clockwise. That, and the fact that it disappears in a flash of light whenever it encounters a regular clock.
@Sophie 🎲🧩🏳️⚧️ I love the fact that the minutes are given by the angle between the spears (same for seconds).
Now wouldn't it be fun to do the same thing with days (of the year) and hours instead? This would approximately describe the orbit of a place on earth around the sun (I mean if it was real scale, which would make it unreadable, so that was actually a bad idea 😂 )
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in reply to Sophie 🎲🧩🏳️⚧️ • • •Honestly, I think this would be easier to read than a traditional clock.
What's that? Figuring out a mechanism so each hand spins at the end of the previous one? Eh, not my problem :p
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in reply to Sophie 🎲🧩🏳️⚧️ • • •I guess the only downside is the minutes in the middle of each hour will feel like they are going slower since the end of the hand isn't moving as fast?
honestly though who cares about those minutes? I want HD time at the start and end of the hour!
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in reply to Sophie 🎲🧩🏳️⚧️ • • •Okay, I have a working prototype (which spent way too long to make, why am I coding on an iPad???)
I have quickly realised that the hour markers are not in the wrong place because of a bug, I just misunderstood how the thing would work.
I’ll look into a fix tomorrow but for now (as you can see), it’s late. I need sleep.
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in reply to Sophie 🎲🧩🏳️⚧️ • • •I did it! I made an epicycle clock!
Check your loopy time here:
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I'm currently working on an epicycle art app, and a super in-depth jigsaw puzzle app!
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in reply to Sophie 🎲🧩🏳️⚧️ • • •quick evening update: 24 hour mode, and also a seconds cycle (it does not improve readability! :P)
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in reply to Sophie 🎲🧩🏳️⚧️ • • •Saw that my epicycle clock was getting noticed a bit again, so I finally took the time to make it use vector graphics - you can zoom in and it still looks good!
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Fun bonus: Animated time offsets, watch it go spinny!
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(All the analog clocks in my house are counterclocks, so it’s not like I can be sure what feels natural.)
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I love the fact that the minutes are given by the angle between the spears (same for seconds).
Now wouldn't it be fun to do the same thing with days (of the year) and hours instead? This would approximately describe the orbit of a place on earth around the sun (I mean if it was real scale, which would make it unreadable, so that was actually a bad idea 😂 )