Replace your clock with a Go board!

brokensymmetry · Post by **brokensymmetry** » Tue Jun 17, 2014 10:07 am

Hi all,

I've written a little website with a virtual Go board that tells the time, and thought I'd share it with a wider audience:

http://brokensymmetry.co.uk/go-clock

It's rather silly and meant to be purely decorative.

The source code is freely available (https://code.google.com/p/go-clock/) and there will doubtless be updates as I'm mainly using it to hone my HTML5 skills.

You can also download it as a web-app on iOS devices - I haven't tested on Android or other mobile platforms but it should all be fine.

Enjoy!

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oca · Post by **oca** » Tue Jun 17, 2014 11:08 am

Great

, very funny !

Nyanjilla · Post by **Nyanjilla** » Wed Jun 18, 2014 1:25 am

Love it!

oca · Post by **oca** » Wed Jun 18, 2014 1:51 am

please... add a "second hand" and a digital version

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brokensymmetry · Post by **brokensymmetry** » Wed Jun 18, 2014 2:11 am

I did experiment with having a second hand but it looked confusing - there just aren't enough spaces on the board to have three distinguishable hands.

There are two digital versions already there - just click on the board to switch between them. The one below is showing 10:02:40 and changes every second. Any other designs or feature requests are welcome though.

oca · Post by **oca** » Wed Jun 18, 2014 2:16 am

Nyanjilla · Post by **Nyanjilla** » Wed Jun 18, 2014 2:30 am

brokensymmetry wrote:I did experiment with having a second hand but it looked confusing - there just aren't enough spaces on the board to have three distinguishable hands.

There are two digital versions already there - just click on the board to switch between them. The one below is showing 10:02:40 and changes every second.

It's fun just clicking between the different clocks and watching the stones move around or appear and disappear. Good thing I don't have any work to do at the moment....

brokensymmetry wrote:Any other designs or feature requests are welcome though.

Byoyomi counter?

quantumf · Post by **quantumf** » Wed Jun 18, 2014 5:01 am

Love it!

The "4" looks a bit peculiar though - can you address that?

brokensymmetry · Post by **brokensymmetry** » Thu Jun 19, 2014 3:02 pm

Hmmm, I quite liked the '4', but an informal survey suggests I'm the only one who does, so I've tweaked it a bit.

I've also just added another clock type - just click on the board to switch.

oca · Post by **oca** » Fri Jun 20, 2014 7:39 am

Is it possible to have a kind of "counter" till a next event
[edit] I mean a countdown, not a counter [/edit]

I will be more then happy to put that clock in our club web site in a form of a counter of the minutes to next tournement for instance...

That would also be nice if we can easily include it in a "div" as we do for Eidigo

brokensymmetry · Post by **brokensymmetry** » Fri Jun 20, 2014 8:58 am

It would be awkward to include on your own site at the moment, but it's a good idea. I would have to do some work separating out the implementation from the interface and documenting an API, but that sounds fun (or at least worthwhile).

For a count-down to an event it would need to be able to display 'days' too, which is fine.

So I probably will try to make it easy to use elsewhere, but don't hold your breath - might take a couple of days or a couple of months to get round to it.

oca · Post by **oca** » Fri Jun 20, 2014 11:43 am

ok thanks, just tell me if I can help...

LocoRon · Post by **LocoRon** » Sat Jun 21, 2014 12:13 pm

brokensymmetry wrote:I did experiment with having a second hand but it looked confusing - there just aren't enough spaces on the board to have three distinguishable hands.

I'm not a fan of analog clocks, but, I'll throw an idea out there anyway.

If the "base" of each hand is the same color, and only the tip is the other color, when two or more hands align, you'll be able to tell which hands are aligned by the pattern of the colors.

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Click Here To Show Diagram Code: [go]$$B All three hands are aligned. $$ +---------------------------------------+ $$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | $$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | $$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | $$ | . . . , . . . . . , . . . . . , . . . | $$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | $$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | $$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | $$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | $$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | $$ | . . . O O O X X X X . . . . . , . . . | $$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | $$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | $$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | $$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | $$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | $$ | . . . , . . . . . , . . . . . , . . . | $$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | $$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | $$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | $$ +---------------------------------------+[/go]

I'm not sure how it would look when the hands aren't at exact 90 degree angles... perhaps it would still be too messy.

brokensymmetry · Post by **brokensymmetry** » Mon Jun 23, 2014 2:57 am

If the "base" of each hand is the same color, and only the tip is the other color, when two or more hands align, you'll be able to tell which hands are aligned by the pattern of the colors.

Interesting idea, thanks. Your diagrams had the hour hand the longest which wouldn't work. It really needs the minute hand longer than the hour - just convention I know, but otherwise almost everyone would get very confused. Convention also tends to make the second hand as long as the minute hand but thinner. I can't do thinner, and my experiments show it just looks a bit of a mess with all three hands no matter how you colour them.

It does now have a mode with the hour and minute shown digitally at the top and a second hand underneath, which is perhaps the best I can do.

I will try out the different coloured stones for the ends of the minute and hour hands though as that might look nice.

LocoRon · Post by **LocoRon** » Mon Jun 23, 2014 6:08 am

brokensymmetry wrote:Your diagrams had the hour hand the longest which wouldn't work. It really needs the minute hand longer than the hour - just convention I know, but otherwise almost everyone would get very confused. Convention also tends to make the second hand as long as the minute hand but thinner.

Oops, you're right, of course. Just goes to show how much I use analog clocks or watches. ^_^;;

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