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Pražský Orloj: Prague astronomical clock simulator. (2022)
- eternityforest 3y agoLooks amazing! A wonderful simulator of a piece of history, a work of art in itself, and an open source reusable component(Although it doesn't look easy to make embeddable), perfect for HA dashboards. Check out the other stuff on their GitHub, they have some more cool time/weather/astronomy stuff.
- perilunar 3y agoLove this clock, though I find it hard to read. It inspired me to make a simpler solar clock and calendar: https://sunclock.net https://sunclock.net
- AdhemarVandamme 3y agoIn Firefox, the 24 (with the old-style 4 looking like a turned alpha) is missing from the outer dark band. However, in Edge, the 24 is there.
- dvh 3y agoThis completely missed the point of visiting Orloj. You don't go there to see the clock, you go there to see the animated skeleton. Slovak 80s pop rock band Elan even made a song about her: https://youtu.be/1Gctnn-vCfM https://youtu.be/1Gctnn-vCfM "Tourists, sparrows, school trips, orloj and apostles. Skeleton is standing on the side and everybody is afraid of her..."
- timeon 3y agoEww Elan. I hated that band all my childhood for the music but Lead vocalist Ráž who was voicing support for Mečiar, Fico, Castro, and Putin is not giving me enthusiasm even today.
- BossingAround 3y agoTrue. But, it's also a clock, which is presumably difficult to read, hence the simulation.
- Toutouxc 3y agoLiterally listened to it today in the car (I have a soft spot for Elán). Also, as someone who lives in Prague, I don’t really go anywhere near the clock. That’s tourist land. It doesn’t feel like home.
- mcepl 3y agoLived for some time five minutes walking from the Clock, and so I can heartily appreciate the old Prague joke: “Daddy, why they call it the tourist season, when we cannot shoot them?”
- 082349872349872 3y ago> [Smrtka] is standing on the side... I had a moment of cognitive dissonance when skimming through a recent russian WWII series about a group of (Yak-1?) pilots and the romances between them, for at one point there was a SmerSh (Smert Shpionen) agent, and —unlike in Bond flicks– he was a good guy. EDIT: looks like it was Истребители (2013).
- vinnyvichy 2y agohttps://math.ru/lib/files/pdf/4kolmogorov.pdf https://math.ru/lib/files/pdf/4kolmogorov.pdf
- ccppurcell 3y agoThe first day after the lockdowns here I went to Prague. It was amazing to see the clock and Charles bridge without the usual crowds of tourists.
- internet2000 3y agoBut, if you want to simulate the Prague astronomical clock in style, check out the Quake-like FPS game HROT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUuFBPN2YDE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUuFBPN2YDE It includes the skeleton.
- 082349872349872 3y ago> It includes the skeleton but unfortunately not the saints' days around the edge of the bottom circle: https://www.orloj.eu/en/orloj_cisiojan.htm https://www.orloj.eu/en/orloj_cisiojan.htm (you can tell the day when spanish explorers first "discovered" what would become Californian coastal cities because they named each location after which day it was they got there: San Diego, Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz, San Francisco, etc.)