Live data from Hacker News

Epicycle Clock

sophiehoulden.com

1–10 of 31 posts

Re: Epicycle Clock

#4
I like this a lot. Does anyone here have experience using Patreon for supporting this kind of work? Seems like a natural fit for a digital artist.

Re: Epicycle Clock

#7

about 20 years ago a built a really really janky mechanical version of this.

Super cool, any pictures? I think the minute/second hands would probably be too hard to reliably see, but this would be a really unique looking watch.

Re: Epicycle Clock

#8
This made me smile :). What a fun clock.

Given CSS animations coupled with the new CSS trigonometric functions... this should be doable in pure CSS, minus the initial injection of the current seconds into a CSS variable on page load. There is no reason to do it in CSS, it just sounds like a fun weekend project (unless someone beats me to it, in which case a fun weekday project!)

Re: Epicycle Clock

#10
Neat!

It reminds me a little of a screen saver called Fractal Clock that I wrote many years ago for MacOS X: https://www.dqd.com/programs/FractalClock/

Sadly, the screen saver stopped working as of (I think) Catalina and I have never gotten around to fixing it. But someone else wrote a very clever web version which you can see here: https://cakenggt.github.io/web-fractal-clock/ and the source repo is here: https://github.com/cakenggt/web-fractal-clock

Post reply on HN