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The Colour Clock
- mikeknoop 16y agoI feel like this would make an awesome desk or wall clock.
- kadavy 16y agoMaybe load it up on a Chumby? http://chumby.com http://chumby.com
- chrischen 16y agoI've turned off sleep mode so I can actually see this as my screensaver now.
- rottencupcakes 16y agoThe switch from 22:59 to 23:00 was stunning. I can't wait for the switch at midnight (#FFFFFF -> #000000).
- madcaptenor 16y agoI missed it. It basically goes from white (well, very pale cyan) to bright red, right?
- tomerico 16y agoFeel free to modify your computer clock :)
- madcaptenor 16y agoSeems like cheating.
- oldstrangers 16y ago#FFFFFF to #000000 would be white to black.
- madcaptenor 16y agoI made my comment at about 23:05 last night, my local time; I was talking about 22:59:59 to 23:00:00, or (approximately) #F5FFFF to #FF0000.
- jefe78 16y agoThis is pretty impressive. Would you consider porting to other OS'? I.e., Linux. I know I'd be happy to run this on my monitors! Regardless, great job!
- wladimir 16y agoI'd like one that doesn't show the seconds (but does change the color every second). This is too distracting for me to really use. Funny and original idea though!
- dshankar 16y agoSimple & beautiful. Small criticism: Why Flash?
- thristian 16y agoIt should be simple enough to implement in HTML - it looks like it's just doing (seconds since midnight × 16777215 / 86400), converting to hex and using that as a colour. Toggling between "clock" and "colour" mode would be a bit more difficult, but doable. Anyone feeling up to the challenge?
- kemayo 16y agoThat "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.
- personalcompute 16y agoYou can actually, F11
- kemayo 16y agoWell, yeah, but you can't have a handy button for it on the page.
- bricestacey 16y ago
- th 16y agoThe hex clock seems to jump every once in a while, probably compensating for the large difference in the number of hexadecimal color values and seconds in a 24 hour day. How are the color values related to the seconds here?
- wladimir 16y agoAs I understand: hours are red, minutes are green, seconds are blue. Simply formulated as HTML color #HHMMSS (and with each component scaled appropriately to 00..FF so that 00:00:00 is #000000, 23:59:59 is #FFFFFF)
- kevinburke 16y agoI still like the Polar Clock best... http://blog.pixelbreaker.com/polarclock http://blog.pixelbreaker.com/polarclock
- pharrington 16y agoMy favorite clock remains the Uniqlock: http://www.uniqlo.jp/uniqlock/ http://www.uniqlo.jp/uniqlock/
- OstiaAntica 16y agoThat's hilarious!
- naz 16y agoAwesome idea. I took some time to rewrite in HTML5: http://brisy.info/colors/ http://brisy.info/colors/ Though the colours I'm getting are different. I wonder why.
- leot 16y ago... perhaps because it should be h / 24 instead of h / 60 ? body.animate({"background-color": "rgb(" + parseInt((h / 60) * 255) + "," + parseInt((m / 60) * 255) + "," + parseInt((s / 60) * 255) + ")"});
- naz 16y agoYes, just corrected this thanks.
- bkrausz 16y agoHaha, I just did the same thing: http://nerdlife.net/colorclock.html http://nerdlife.net/colorclock.html
- naz 16y agoGreat minds and all. If you replace the html file in the screensaver bundle you can use yours (or mine) instead of the flash one.
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- joshes 16y agoI wonder how well the color blind can detect second to second changes in hue? Not a complaint, just a genuine curiosity. Any color blind out there care to comment?
- RossM 16y agoI'm red-green colour blind but have difficulty in describing colours in general (I see them and know what they are but sometimes (and especially if they're under a coloured light) I can't specifically say what colour a wall is, for example). This is quite interesting as I can't really see second-by-second changes; at most I can see small jumps (not the radically large ones) you get every few seconds.
- SoftwareMaven 16y agoI'm not color blind, yet that is what I see, too. Makes me wonder about the brain's color-processing. My guess is small variations are ignored by the brain because slightly changing light conditions can cause all colors to vary slightly over time. Your brain filters them out so you can only tell when something really is changing.
- callumjones 16y agoThis 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.
- edge17 16y agothat's quite beautiful
- grigy 16y agoNice job, but why screensaver only for MacOS?
- regularfry 16y agoA shame that the fastest-moving value is placed in the portion of the spectrum where we have the least colour sensitivity. I'd have put hours in blue, myself. If I'd thought of it.
- pointernil 16y agoI'm quite sure there are much more mappings from hh:mm:ss -> rgb which would be even more interesting or even practical. For sure the internet will iterate on this idea in just a few seconds :)
- regularfry 16y agoYeah, HMS->HSL would be quite intriguing.
- ctoneal 16y agoForked from flog: http://www.manatee-combine.com/colour-clock/ http://www.manatee-combine.com/colour-clock/ http://github.com/ctoneal/colour-clock/ http://github.com/ctoneal/colour-clock/
- kemayo 16y agohttp://davidlynch.org/toys/colorclock/#hms http://davidlynch.org/toys/colorclock/#hms http://davidlynch.org/toys/colorclock/#smh http://davidlynch.org/toys/colorclock/#smh http://davidlynch.org/toys/colorclock/#mhs http://davidlynch.org/toys/colorclock/#mhs Or any other order, really.
- cormullion 16y agoIt's also on the iPhone app store (for £0.59), but it might be a different author. Associating time with colour has been tried many times - eg the Chromachron watch was briefly famous: http://www.ubergizmo.com/2006/11/chromachron-too-advanced-for-70s/ http://www.ubergizmo.com/2006/11/chromachron-too-advanced-fo...
- JonnieCache 16y agoThe state of the art for custom geek clocks is in hardware AFAIC. RGB LED color clock: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKT-0qB9l8A&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKT-0qB9l8A&feature=relat... I also enjoy the classic 'pong clocks' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHxbknBYYAQ&feature=player_embedded http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHxbknBYYAQ&feature=playe... Clocks are a common beginner project in DIY hardware, they are both simple to make and have good potential for adding stuff like RSS readers and so on when you want to branch out. http://hackaday.com/?s=clock http://hackaday.com/?s=clock
- JoeAltmaier 16y agoiPhone app?
- tr 16y agodone
- george_morgan 16y agoVery similar to the Chromo http://prote.in/chromo http://prote.in/chromo colour clock, which has been around for a few years.
- kfogel 16y agoJim Blandy wrote a similar program for X Windows around 1992: a beautiful color clock that would sit on your desktop's root windown and slowly cycle through the colors over the course of an hour. It didn't even show digits -- you just had to learn the colors :-). I think it depended on X supporting writeable color cells, though, so it would need to be rewritten to work on most modern systems (which generally seem to not be set up that way). http://svn.red-bean.com/repos/circles/trunk/ Hmm, but that's after I started making some mods. For best results, try an earlier rev (this was converted from CVS, hence the weird log message): http://viewvc.red-bean.com/circles/trunk/?pathrev=3
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- crassauto 16y agoI had done something similar around 2000 though I wasn't very sophisticated at programming so I think it's off... http://minus20.e-2.org/artists_projects_chriso.html http://minus20.e-2.org/artists_projects_chriso.html Last year I re-made it as a free iOS app which takes the time and converts it using a RGB>HEX function I found that I think is correct: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/time-as-color/id335133255?mt=8&ls=1 http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/time-as-color/id335133255?mt=... I also made one that sets Hour, Minute to latitude,longitude in Google maps which I like looking at: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/time-as-place/id336539483?mt=8&ls=1 http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/time-as-place/id336539483?mt=... (edited second link)
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- jablan 16y agoIt would be nice if the colour was meaningful, i.e. if one could, at least roughly, guess the time based on the colour. Say, that the brightness would reflect time of day (brightest at noon, darkest at midnight) and the hue the time within the hour.
- Semiapies 16y agoHSL might work better for that, though I'd cycle it around the spectrum, with the seconds value being the saturation percentage.
- madcaptenor 16y agoIt would be interesting to see what would happen if the colors were given by following a space-filling curve in three dimensions, like the last figure at http://mathworld.wolfram.com/HilbertCurve.html http://mathworld.wolfram.com/HilbertCurve.html