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Epicycle Clock

by jvandonsel on 6/25/23, 6:59 PM with 6 comments

• by TrianguloY on 6/26/23, 5:25 AM

  It would be nice if the "epicycle clock" words at the bottom would link to an explanation on Wikipedia or something (or display a popup).

  Also, with the dark mode extension the white background is black, but all the black numbers/line are still black (not white) which makes it only show the minutes and seconds hands. And it looks quite confusing.

  Still nice though

• by slang800 on 6/25/23, 10:44 PM

  This is cool. Makes me want to see if a mechanical version of this could be done.

• by berbec on 6/25/23, 10:10 PM

  I would find this much less confusing if the minute of every hour was "north"/"up"

• by ifyalciner on 6/27/23, 11:52 PM

  This is looks quite aesthetic.

  Also a super analogy to show new programmers how complexity increases if you introduce unnecessary dependencies.

• by gumby on 6/26/23, 3:28 AM

  Very nice!