Show HN: Triclock – A Triangular Clock

7 days ago (triclock.franzai.com)

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.

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

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?

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.

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

  • 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.