Anyone know what the music is here? Shazam seems to be giving me false results :(
Its a stock music from audiojungle :)
Show HN: I spent a year making an electro-mechanical prototype of a liquid clock
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Re: Show HN: I spent a year making an electro-mechanical prototype of a liquid clock
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hi Henk, At the moment its working but its not perfect. The biggest challenge i had was to make this really look like fluid and kill the ferrofluid spikes. I simply wanted to animate the fluid not make it obvious that its a ferrofluid. So i had to thin the ferrofluid with all kinds of different things, some work better some work worse, still testing.
I was wondering about the spikes. What did you do that worked / didn't work to fix that? What is the 'thickness'? I'm guessing only several millimeters??
actually this was the hardest part, how to make numbers look thick and REAL, and connected. Here is a GIF that shows this nicely:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/066c8502j2zwlwo/rheiani.gif?dl=0
Thats the reason why i had to work with ferrofluid and change its structure and composition, i wanted to have thicker numbers. Whole screen is 10mm thick inside, and numbers sometimes go up to 8mm of thickness. They are especially nice from the angle because the seem like they float and not simply stuck to the wall. I will make better photos definitely.
Re: Show HN: I spent a year making an electro-mechanical prototype of a liquid clock
#53The project itself is amazing, but this is also one of the most beautiful websites and captivating videos I have seen in awhile.
Vide is a product of two very talented guys, Djordje Stojiljkovic and Nenad Veljovic. I will pass on your compliments to them. As for the website, that would be my primary profession UX/UI design :) Althugh it was all done in 1 day.
Re: Show HN: I spent a year making an electro-mechanical prototype of a liquid clock
#54Awesome. :) The slogan is geat too, I would just drop the "literally" at the end, I think it's unneeded. "Time flows" is perfect IMHO. Can you explain how did the idea grows in your mind?
seems that HN won't allow him post more so he messaged me the answer: --- yeah its funny, the first time i tried to make this was long time ago, here is the video 3 years old: https://vimeo.com/42313987 The idea was pretty spontaneous. I saw CZferro toys online and wanted to play with it so much. I ordered one and played with it and after a while i was thinking why couldnt this be something concrete. I loved the idea…
So you contreted your idea by concreting time as an object without a solid susbstance. I guess you got it right. :)
Thank you for the explanation. ;)
Re: Show HN: I spent a year making an electro-mechanical prototype of a liquid clock
#55How can i buy one of these? And how much does/would it cost? :)
At the moment its only a prototype. After some testing, if it reutrns promising results i would be more than glad to produce a smaller quantity of these. Unfortunately i have no idea about the price, sorry.
Re: Show HN: I spent a year making an electro-mechanical prototype of a liquid clock
#56Awesome. :) The slogan is geat too, I would just drop the "literally" at the end, I think it's unneeded. "Time flows" is perfect IMHO. Can you explain how did the idea grows in your mind?
Supposedly he felt like he needs to build something with ferrofluid the first time he saw that. There is a video of his first experiment somewhere, where the liquid was way less good looking but he managed to "fix" it over time and actually build the clock
Thanks for your relaying of the info. ;)
Re: Show HN: I spent a year making an electro-mechanical prototype of a liquid clock
#57Just FYI I interpreted the URL as "Hell or Hei" which might not be the impression you want to give.
Re: Show HN: I spent a year making an electro-mechanical prototype of a liquid clock
#58Just FYI I interpreted the URL as "Hell or Hei" which might not be the impression you want to give.
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Re: Show HN: I spent a year making an electro-mechanical prototype of a liquid clock
#59Just FYI I interpreted the URL as "Hell or Hei" which might not be the impression you want to give.
yeah my bad, i forgot to put a capital R which helps a lot in this case :)
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#60Great man, I would like to purchase this clock! Please sell me that prototype :D
umm.. that would be very expensive :))