Clock

This one is a bit different, but great as well <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.literaryclock.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.literaryclock.com&#x2F;</a><p>Give it a minute or so to see what happens...

Wow. That makes me anxious. It really makes me feel like the seconds come and go.

Difficult to read when the time is only stable for such a short period.<p>What if the time emerged from the depths of the scene already assembled, only to crumble to dust as its moment passes?

I find it invigorating in a way - there&#x27;s a constant stream of fresh new seconds coming your way, moments you&#x27;ve never before seen in your life and so could hold anything in them.<p>But I can understand the anxiety a lot of people seem to be feeling at this: I had (and have) a similar response to WaitButWhy&#x27;s [Your Life in Weeks](<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;waitbutwhy.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;05&#x2F;life-weeks.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;waitbutwhy.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;05&#x2F;life-weeks.html</a>) post.

Sweet, a Yugo Nakemura for the 21st Century. Anyone who doesn’t remember yugop.com, it was a site of beautifully cool experiments with Flash and Actionscript 1&#x2F;2, the guy really was an inspiration to so many of us trying to figure out what to do with the web.

At Paddington station in London there&#x27;s a clock on the side of a building that appears to have someone inside it, manually drawing on the hands each minute. Its pretty neat<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;secretldn.com&#x2F;clock-man-paddington-station&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;secretldn.com&#x2F;clock-man-paddington-station&#x2F;</a>

The core idea (backwards time integration) seems to be implemented here:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;saharan&#x2F;works&#x2F;blob&#x2F;main&#x2F;clock&#x2F;src&#x2F;phys&#x2F;World.hx">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;saharan&#x2F;works&#x2F;blob&#x2F;main&#x2F;clock&#x2F;src&#x2F;phys&#x2F;Wo...</a><p>And by the looks of it, there is a description here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.oimo.io&#x2F;2022&#x2F;02&#x2F;11&#x2F;clock-core&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.oimo.io&#x2F;2022&#x2F;02&#x2F;11&#x2F;clock-core&#x2F;</a><p>I&#x27;m not passionate enough to try and (machine-)translate it, even though I would&#x27;ve really liked to understand how you make collision handling work backwards (especially since the simulation clearly seems to have energy dissipation)...

made with haxe, and more demos available at:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;oimo.io&#x2F;works" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;oimo.io&#x2F;works</a>

His other stuff is amazing too. For example, this water scene. You can click inside the water to splash it around!<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;oimo.io&#x2F;works&#x2F;water3d&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;oimo.io&#x2F;works&#x2F;water3d&#x2F;</a><p>Cloth is very cool too.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;oimo.io&#x2F;works&#x2F;cloth&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;oimo.io&#x2F;works&#x2F;cloth&#x2F;</a><p>Jelly: click on the sphere to tear it apart.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;oimo.io&#x2F;works&#x2F;jelly&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;oimo.io&#x2F;works&#x2F;jelly&#x2F;</a>

I love the details about every 10 seconds the whole volume smashing, and in each minute change it smashing even stronger.<p>I assume there&#x27;s a strong smash on hour and perhaps even day changes, but haven&#x27;t had the time to observe it :)

Parroting a lot of other comments but in short:<p><pre><code> * Really neat * Makes me anxious; perhaps an option for one without seconds?</code></pre>

The thing that&#x27;s amazing about this to me is it&#x27;s using less CPU (for me) than rendering a cube in BablyonJS: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;playground.babylonjs.com&#x2F;#KBS9I5" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;playground.babylonjs.com&#x2F;#KBS9I5</a>

A good example of neither form nor function working.

They could make it more stressful by adding names of those who are dying as we speak.

This clock reminded me of a PSX game called: Forbidden Cube (or alternatively Intelligent Cube) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;BZM9kTGFeko" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;BZM9kTGFeko</a>

Cool, but way too busy &amp; stressful to look at. This gave me anxiety.<p>I&#x27;d suggest a version that has shortish explosions every 30s or 1m, with the slow sliding forward thing, in-between explosions.

Very cool but I&#x27;m afraid I can only look at it for a few seconds!!

<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;oimo.io&#x2F;works&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;oimo.io&#x2F;works&#x2F;</a> on mobile, for me, only works properly in portrait.

This gives me a huge hit of nostalgia for Flash and ActionScript - ActionScript 3 was my introduction to OOP, design patters, and something akin to &quot;game programming&quot;.<p>I remember browsing Flash demos like this with all sorts of really neat effects, UI tidbits, etc.<p>Creating a little physics engine in AS3 was super fun. I never really got over how fun it was to write code like &quot;this.parent.rm(this)&quot;<p>Not sure if it&#x27;s the same making demos like this, but it feels like it!

This sent my anxiety through the roof.

Reminds me of Yugo Nakamura - what was once yugop.com - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Yugo_Nakamura" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Yugo_Nakamura</a>

On the topic of clocks, have anyone seen any examples of physical representations of time flowing or filling in in a block like way, like an easier to read hourglass.

Pretty cool, but maybe a bit busy? Would make a good screensaver.

This clock is mesmerizing. It will surely make me forget what I was doing before looking at the time.<p>I especially love the jump animation every 10 seconds and the minutely(?) super jump.

Imagining this up on my next Zoom, suspect everyone will start talking much much faster and we might get through more but be knackered by the end of the call.

very cool , gives me a headache

Don&#x27;t forget <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;humanclock.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;humanclock.com&#x2F;</a>

I wish I could move the camera around, then I&#x27;d set up the view I need (face-on) and leave it on the projector all day ..

time.gov is all you need

This whole site and related github is a little trove of ideas and other treasures. I will be doing some digging

How does it work? I&#x27;m guessing it&#x27;s exploding the clock then playing the animation in reverse?

Major flashbacks to Amiga demos.

Seems to hijack Cmd+D on Safari Mac so you have to use the menu bar to bookmark it.

Imagine being in solitary confinement and this was a clock on the wall...

It jumps every 10 seconds!

Its time, if you&#x27;ve not seen it like this, this is what it is

It feels overwhelming and makes me want to lay down and do nothing.

So unnecessary. I love it

Similar project is mrdoobs.com<p>Even after so many years, harmony is my favorite.

I&#x27;ve never been so happy to feel nauseous. Great work!

Cool, but too noisy.

This is truly beautiful. Well done to the creator!

Would love to be able to do this with any text

would be cool if this was a physical clock.

A clock has never made me feel so anxious.

This would be great as a screensaver.

This needs to be a screensaver.

I got motion sickness

...It counts my fears

My phone is melting!

This is super cool.

this clock just made me dizzy, but amazing!

His one on Conway&#x27;s game of life is something else...

Sorry for the asside, perhaps we could add a rule that single name tools need a short description in the thread title. The top two threads are titled &quot;Clock&quot; and &quot;Astral&quot; and you don&#x27;t know what they are going to be until I click out to the external site or try to guess from comments.

I still don&#x27;t know what time it is. &quot;Nice&quot; UI.