• altairprime 3 days 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.

    • vivzkestrel 3 days 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

      • franze 3 days ago

        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.

        • franze 3 days ago

          also fixed the 44s to 45s bug with the visible plasma effect shift in one of the triangles

        • Bolwin 3 days 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?

          • franze 3 days ago

            it's a pwa and the widgets are a good idea

          • mrtx01 3 days 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.

            • johnthescott 3 days ago

              only three seasons exist in traditional vedic model.

              • ninju 3 days ago

                Why is 11:30:30 not a perfect equilateral triangle. The "hours" spacing is a bit off

                • franze 3 days 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.

                • bombashell 3 days ago

                  Oh wow this is soooo freakin cool

                  • hackersk 3 days ago

                    2222

                  • camtarn 3 days ago

                    The Flux mode is really pretty!

                    • opem 2 days ago

                      This is really sick