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Re: Wobbly clock

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Post by mellavora »

drdaeman wrote: post #125
berkes wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

While analog watches aren't as precise, they are faster. It takes most people less time to process, as humans (apparently)[1] can interpret an image faster than numbers. For example, 189/304 vs [####__]; the latter is probably faster to process. Also, not related to clocks, but analog gauges in particular: a number lacks an important vector of information: rate of change. [1] https://books.google.nl/books?id=nrtUgKzF…

Honestly, I have a contradicting personal experience. For me, it takes me an order of magnitude longer to process an analog watchface into a numerical reading, than just glance over a digital watchface directly (over a second versus a few hundred milliseconds). For the progress bars (or, say, tank level gauges) it totally makes sense - I like them the same way you've presented, it's easier to ingest [####__] (or, bet…

> , I suspect that most people read the time then do the arithmetic rather than imagining a pie chart.

depends how the person was trained, my friend.

Re: Wobbly clock

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Post by ok123456 »

jaywalk wrote: post #129
ok123456 wrote: post #102

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What's the point of a smart watch if you can't change the dial and face however you want? It's like when carriers wouldn't let you load your own ring tones on to your phone, because they didn't want to cannibalize their own ring tone sales.

There's so much more to a smart watch than a fully-customizable watch face. While I fully believe that Apple should open up to third-party faces, I am quite content with the customization options that they offer now.

There may be more, but it includes that functionality at the very least. That would be the absolute base line functionality of a watch that has a bit-mapped display.

Re: Wobbly clock

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Post by jaywalk »

ok123456 wrote: post #132
jaywalk wrote: post #129

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's so much more to a smart watch than a fully-customizable watch face. While I fully believe that Apple should open up to third-party faces, I am quite content with the customization options that they offer now.

There may be more, but it includes that functionality at the very least. That would be the absolute base line functionality of a watch that has a bit-mapped display.

I'd argue that the success of the Apple Watch proves that you're incorrect.

Re: Wobbly clock

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Post by LanternLight83 »

nokita wrote: post #64
franky47 wrote: post #58

I saw somewhere on the internet a clock where the hand of the seconds moves at random irregular intervals, but averages out to 60 moves a minute. Extremely frustrating to watch. Edit: here's a video of it running (somehow the seconds hand runs backwards) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKU-zmNFSxw

The second hand isn't running backwards, the numbers run the wrong way.

Neat! We built clocks with CAD and a laser cutter in my high school engineering class, and I remember cheekily making mine unqiue by numbering it backwards and/or without noon at the top

Re: Wobbly clock

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Post by autodev1 »

ColinWright wrote: post #9
omnicognate wrote: post #4

Most satisfying to watch. Setting my alarm so I can see the hour change. I want a real one. Edit: D'aww. Hug of death.

New URL: https://somethingorotherwhatever.com/wobble-clock/

it too has been hugged

i feel like i am really missing out on something here

Re: Wobbly clock

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Post by larschdk »

Kiro wrote: post #84
Medea wrote: post #56

Remixed with retina support: https://glitch.com/~noble-gratis-princess

What did you do to make it retina?

You need to manually create a canvas at screen resolution and scale it to fit the screen. A default canvas has pixels that are logical pixels, not actual pixels.

Re: Wobbly clock

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Post by xen2xen1 »

jaywalk wrote: post #129
ok123456 wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's the point of a smart watch if you can't change the dial and face however you want? It's like when carriers wouldn't let you load your own ring tones on to your phone, because they didn't want to cannibalize their own ring tone sales.

There's so much more to a smart watch than a fully-customizable watch face. While I fully believe that Apple should open up to third-party faces, I am quite content with the customization options that they offer now.

Any color, so long as it's black. Henry Ford, Steve Jobs.

Re: Wobbly clock

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Post by xen2xen1 »

ok123456 wrote: post #132
jaywalk wrote: post #129

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's so much more to a smart watch than a fully-customizable watch face. While I fully believe that Apple should open up to third-party faces, I am quite content with the customization options that they offer now.

There may be more, but it includes that functionality at the very least. That would be the absolute base line functionality of a watch that has a bit-mapped display.

Yup, one of my favorite parts of having my last smart watch was making it look like a Fallout pip-boy. It would be required for me.

Re: Wobbly clock

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Post by caf »

jimmydddd wrote: post #115
jedberg wrote: post #81

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The clocks in my elementary, middle, and high schools would do something similar. Not every minute, but every hour. At the top of the hour, when there was 15 seconds left, the second hand would make 3 second jumps until it hit the top, and then hold until the next hour started. I always thought that was a brilliant way to keep mechanical clocks in sync. And the system had been there since the 1970s, so it was well be…

Thanks for that. We had those as well. But third-grade me never really thought about the purpose. So it's fun to think about it now. In contrast, I'll sometimes now walk into a lobby or reception area of a business where they will have like five different analog clocks on the wall representing NY, Paris, London, etc, (trying to look "international" I guess) and the minute hands are out of sync. Kind of sad in 2023. :…

It'd be a fun project to make a dial wall clock that uses GPS time.
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