Show HN: Triclock – A Triangular Clock

triclock.franzai.com
franze
yesterday
53points
14 comments

Comments

altairprime11 hours ago
Impressive visualization. Can you roll each 2d axis into a circle so that the back half of the axis curves around the back? The raytrace should still function but it’ll look less snapped-off at the boundaries, even if you flatten the 2d depth to nothing and run the axis ticks backwards.

For anyone else wondering, the weird flashing at startup is an attract mode for the invisible mode switch text at top.

vivzkestrel15 hours ago
11/10 for creativity there man. i was absolutely blown away by what i was looking at. imagine guests coming to your house and figuring out what the time is looking at this
franzeyesterday
I wanted to do something with the Plasma Effect from this HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46867271 combined with the faint idea to do something with colors and time that has been on my mind for quite some time.
franze19 hours ago
also fixed the 44s to 45s bug with the visible plasma effect shift in one of the triangles
mrtx0110 hours ago
This is so pretty! Curving the triangle to a cone with seconds as base to make them run smoothly in a circle would be a nice option.
Bolwin16 hours ago
This is gorgeous. I see a install on pwa, but it would be even nicer if this could be an android widget. Anyone know if this is possible?
franze12 hours ago
it's a pwa and the widgets are a good idea
opem7 hours ago
This is really sick
johnthescott15 hours ago
only three seasons exist in traditional vedic model.
ninju14 hours ago
Why is 11:30:30 not a perfect equilateral triangle. The "hours" spacing is a bit off
franze12 hours ago
interesting question, near perfect triangles

  07:18:18 
  16:41:41 
  09:23:23 
but non of them are mathematically perfect triangles.

well 00:00:00 and 23:59:59 are

for a perfect triangle all three hands need equal distance from center. hours range 0 to 23, minutes and seconds 0 to 59, so you need

h(divided by) 23 to equal

m(divided by) 59 to equal

s(divided by) 59.

since 23 and 59 are both prime, bad luck.

bombashell19 hours ago
Oh wow this is soooo freakin cool
hackersk16 hours ago
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camtarnyesterday
The Flux mode is really pretty!