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Re: Different Clocks

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Post by jantuss »

qq66 wrote: post #22
GuinansEyebrows wrote: post #5

very cool. reminds me of an old iPhone clock app called "hms" that displayed a rectangular prism, and each dimension (x, y, z) corresponded with the hour, minute and second, so the shape would grow over time before resetting one or more dimensions. it got delisted years ago for some reason but i used to love it as a "nightstand mode" clock.

https://hms.gysin-vanetti.com/

Nice! @qq66 did you make this spiralling clock? https://www.shadertoy.com/view/flGGDy It's trippy, and I love how the spiral arms rearrange every few seconds.

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Post by bux93 »

rook_line_sinkr wrote: post #9

The binary clock reminds me of this real-life one near the Zoo in Berlin https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mengenlehreuhr

The binary clock reminds me of a similar bar you sometimes saw on videotapes being played back on TV broadcasts. They didn't look like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical_interval_timecode , since these are stripes, not blocks. Maybe specific to PAL?

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Post by dimava »

miteyironpaw wrote: post #23
qixv wrote: post #21

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Oh, I clicked the link. My life is almost 50% complete. However, the expected lifetimes are obviously too low. It expects me to end up at approximately age 80, but that is an underestimation. I dont know if the lifetimes that are used are just outdated, or if they lack expected mortality improvements.

Yeah I figured that 80 was a pretty good approximation because the average life expectancy in the US is 77. It surprisingly doesn't increase as much I would have expected as you age so I didn't account for that effect.

Can you make a variant for relative passing time?

You probably barely remember anything up to around 10, and then each doubling of age adds one logarithmical unit

So 10 is 1, 20 is 2, 40 is 3 and 80 is 4 (or maybe 0, 1 and 2?)

20 is already half of life passed by -_-

Re: Different Clocks

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Post by Chris2048 »

dimava wrote: post #33
miteyironpaw wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah I figured that 80 was a pretty good approximation because the average life expectancy in the US is 77. It surprisingly doesn't increase as much I would have expected as you age so I didn't account for that effect.

Can you make a variant for relative passing time? You probably barely remember anything up to around 10, and then each doubling of age adds one logarithmical unit So 10 is 1, 20 is 2, 40 is 3 and 80 is 4 (or maybe 0, 1 and 2?) 20 is already half of life passed by -_-

I think that's a bit too simplistic, unless someone can testify that the 20 years 20 t0 40 feel as long as 40 years, 40 to 80.

Here's an interesting graph and discussion on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/1e18fmz/pe...

Still looking if anyone has a study of (life/long-term) time perception w/ graph(s).

Re: Different Clocks

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Post by Chris2048 »

DougBTX wrote: post #2

The once-per-millennium marks are captivating. They feel almost within our understanding, but not quite.

Reminds me of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitch_drop_experiment

"Each droplet forms and falls over a period of about a decade."

"it is expected there is enough pitch in the funnel to allow it to continue for at least another hundred years"

I guess with enough pitch you an make a millennium-scale "water" (liquid) clock?

Re: Different Clocks

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Post by Chris2048 »

daedrdev wrote: post #15
beej71 wrote: post #13

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Like those insane gear ratio videos on YouTube... You know the final gear is turning, logically, but the fact that the Sun will eat the Earth long before the gear completes a single turn lends a strange perspective.

I saw a neat one where they put the last gear in a block of cement while still spinning the first one quite fast.

Is the idea that it never moves, or that the cement will degrade by the time it does?

Re: Different Clocks

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Post by Piskvorrr »

Chris2048 wrote: post #39
daedrdev wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I saw a neat one where they put the last gear in a block of cement while still spinning the first one quite fast.

Is the idea that it never moves, or that the cement will degrade by the time it does?

It moves slowly enough that the wheel will approximately never turn enough to generate significant torque.
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