The Colour Clock • Hacker News Board

Re: The Colour Clock

#21

Post by callumjones » Fri, Feb 25, 2011, 7:50 AM UTC

This is cool, but does the screensaver also have to be in Flash? I'd prefer my fans to not spin up when my screensaver kicks in.

Re: The Colour Clock

#22

Post by bkrausz » Fri, Feb 25, 2011, 7:51 AM UTC

naz wrote: post #15

Awesome idea. I took some time to rewrite in HTML5: http://brisy.info/colors/ Though the colours I'm getting are different. I wonder why.

Haha, I just did the same thing: http://nerdlife.net/colorclock.html

Re: The Colour Clock

#23

Post by naz » Fri, Feb 25, 2011, 7:52 AM UTC

bkrausz wrote: post #22

naz wrote: post #15

Awesome idea. I took some time to rewrite in HTML5: http://brisy.info/colors/ Though the colours I'm getting are different. I wonder why.

Haha, I just did the same thing: http://nerdlife.net/colorclock.html

Great minds and all. If you replace the html file in the screensaver bundle you can use yours (or mine) instead of the flash one.

Re: The Colour Clock

#24

Post by edge17 » Fri, Feb 25, 2011, 7:56 AM UTC

that's quite beautiful

Re: The Colour Clock

#25

Post by light3 » Fri, Feb 25, 2011, 7:57 AM UTC

naz wrote: post #15

Awesome idea. I took some time to rewrite in HTML5: http://brisy.info/colors/ Though the colours I'm getting are different. I wonder why.

I'm on a P4 3Ghz at the moment, whereby I can hear my CPU buzzing away when its under load. On the .co.uk site the buzzing is audible, its taking >70% of the CPU, whereas on your site its nice and quiet taking just 6% of the CPU.

Re: The Colour Clock

#26

Post by chrischen » Fri, Feb 25, 2011, 8:00 AM UTC

dshankar wrote: post #8

Simple & beautiful. Small criticism: Why Flash?

Probably easier to port it to a screensaver.

Re: The Colour Clock

#27

Post by personalcompute » Fri, Feb 25, 2011, 8:03 AM UTC

kemayo wrote: post #12

dshankar wrote: post #8

Simple & beautiful. Small criticism: Why Flash?

That "full screen" button in the top-right. Or, at least, that's the only thing I see there that you can't do with HTML/JS.

You can actually, F11

Re: The Colour Clock

#28

Post by ars » Fri, Feb 25, 2011, 8:12 AM UTC

light3 wrote: post #25

naz wrote: post #15

Awesome idea. I took some time to rewrite in HTML5: http://brisy.info/colors/ Though the colours I'm getting are different. I wonder why.

I'm on a P4 3Ghz at the moment, whereby I can hear my CPU buzzing away when its under load. On the .co.uk site the buzzing is audible, its taking >70% of the CPU, whereas on your site its nice and quiet taking just 6% of the CPU.

I can not figure out how such a simple program can manage to take up 100% of my CPU, and despite that not be in sync with my actual clock (it's a random fraction of a second off).

Has he not heard of sleep(1) ? Saying "it's flash" is no excuse, flash is perfectly capable of sleeping.

Re: The Colour Clock

#29

Post by axomhacker » Fri, Feb 25, 2011, 8:18 AM UTC

naz wrote: post #15

Awesome idea. I took some time to rewrite in HTML5: http://brisy.info/colors/ Though the colours I'm getting are different. I wonder why.

Honest question - what is the HTML5 part in here (as opposed to I rewrote it in HTML+CSS+JS)?

Re: The Colour Clock

#30

Post by ars » Fri, Feb 25, 2011, 8:21 AM UTC

naz wrote: post #23

bkrausz wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Haha, I just did the same thing: http://nerdlife.net/colorclock.html

Great minds and all. If you replace the html file in the screensaver bundle you can use yours (or mine) instead of the flash one.

Instead of:

  window.setInterval(frame, 1000);

Do:

  window.setTimeout('window.setInterval(frame, 1000)', 999-(new Date()).getMilliseconds());

That way the seconds will be properly synchronized.