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Re: Collection of Digital Clock Designs

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Post by levmiseri »

ryr11 wrote: post #30
72mena wrote: post #10

Oh I love these! It just reminded me of a small project I had in which I was creating experimental watchfaces using SVGs and JavaScript, this is before the AI boom so I made all of these by hand and, although there's nothing impressive here, I'm proud of them as a designer who learned basic code by myself. https://watchface.netlify.app/ And I wrote about it here: https://72mena.medium.com/designing-watch-faces-using-…

I love this. You might've just convinced me to get back into hardware/PCB and make something to put on my wall (with your blessing). I'm not sure if it's just because I'm on mobile, but I think it would be great if the pages that show the watch faces in action had a way to input a time to see what it looks like.

They are very nice! I'd love to see them 'in action' – I'd suggest something similar to what is on clocks.dev if you click in the bottom right corner on the 'timeline' feature: https://clocks.dev/clock/824d7b87d123

Re: Collection of Digital Clock Designs

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Post by joeframbach »

rsamtravis wrote: post #23

The binary one in the bottom row seems to think that the digit to the left of of the 8s place is the 10s place and not, as is normal, the 16s place. Therefore 10 o'clock shows as "00010000" not "1010". Weird. 2300 hrs or 11pm shows as "00100011" which would be 35 o'clock. I guess the 32s place is a... 20s place? Somebody help me out here. https://clocks.dev/clock/35bb1995bc5d

It's splitting the digits into four-bits per decimal digit.

       2       3
    0010    0011

    23 -> 2 3 -> 0010 0011 -> 00100011

Re: Collection of Digital Clock Designs

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Post by zokier »

joeframbach wrote: post #32
rsamtravis wrote: post #23

The binary one in the bottom row seems to think that the digit to the left of of the 8s place is the 10s place and not, as is normal, the 16s place. Therefore 10 o'clock shows as "00010000" not "1010". Weird. 2300 hrs or 11pm shows as "00100011" which would be 35 o'clock. I guess the 32s place is a... 20s place? Somebody help me out here. https://clocks.dev/clock/35bb1995bc5d

It's splitting the digits into four-bits per decimal digit. 2 3 0010 0011 23 -> 2 3 -> 0010 0011 -> 00100011

better known as BCD, binary-coded decimal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary-coded_decimal

Re: Collection of Digital Clock Designs

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Post by paulgerhardt »

reaperducer wrote: post #27

My favorite digital clock was an LCD watch made by Fossil that had the digits spelled out in white Chinese characters on a cobalt background. Not only did it show the characters, it slowly painted them on the screen. This wasn't a dot-matrix display. It was more like a 40-seg display. I've never been able to find a replacement, or even a photo of it online.

Sounds like a kanji version of their Big Tic line.

You can find old copies of the JR-1999/JR-8034/JR7978 on eBay but if you’re curious about fashion history (as I am) the backstory is more interesting[1].

You may be pleased to know that fossil is rebooting the big tic series of watches.

[1] https://www.instagram.com/reel/DVMOp_HDixh/

Re: Collection of Digital Clock Designs

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Post by benwen »

Love this! Thanks for making and sharing.

Worth a mention: John Maeda “12 o’clocks” https://codingtrain.github.io/12oclocks/

https://ems.andrew.cmu.edu/2016-60212/lectures/lecture-09-09...

https://www.moma.org/collection/works/102219

His 1996 work made me appreciate how time is expressed graphically. The smooth motion ones made me disfavor stop second analog clocks so much so that I’ve replaced all the movements in the clocks in our home with sweep second hands.

Re: Collection of Digital Clock Designs

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Post by barbs »

72mena wrote: post #10

Oh I love these! It just reminded me of a small project I had in which I was creating experimental watchfaces using SVGs and JavaScript, this is before the AI boom so I made all of these by hand and, although there's nothing impressive here, I'm proud of them as a designer who learned basic code by myself. https://watchface.netlify.app/ And I wrote about it here: https://72mena.medium.com/designing-watch-faces-using-…

Came here to comment about Tokyoflash's designs, nice to see them here!
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