Clock design
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In my posting about the ultra cool Harry Winston watch I mentioned an alternative clock design I once did. Years ago I got an assignment to design a clock that doesn't have numbers on it or needles like a conventional clock. The above image shows what I came up with. It takes some time to get used to it but once you do it works fairly well. Do you understand how it works? And what do you think of it? I still have the working mechanical prototype but I haven't built one that actually works yet. I do plan to do so some time!
Hints:
- Only one disc is in motion at any given time.
- The discs perform a smooth rotation just like the needles of a clock, no discrete steps!
- the clock has a full 24hours cycle to complete unlike the 12 we're used to
- The clock consists of four viewports with 1/6th of a disc in view
- The image below shows what one disc looks like
This concept: copyright 1992 by Marco van Hylckama Vlieg.
At 09 April '05 - 00:09 Ronald wrote:
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At 09 April '05 - 00:18 Marco wrote:
And… yes the asterisk converts text to bold. It’s a Textile thing. Click the link at the bottom of this textbox to see all Textile options.
At 09 April '05 - 16:20 Simon wrote:
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At 10 April '05 - 22:03 Marco wrote:
Ronald is right. There are 24 possible positions, representing 24 hours. Of course there’s a continuous transitional phase between them so you can still see halves, quarters etc. (it’s not much more precise than that though)
At 10 April '05 - 23:42 Ronald wrote:
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