Polar Clock Screensaver
UPDATE:
Version 3 is now available here
View Polar Clock
Download Screensaver for Mac OS X only.
I’ve just put this together as a bit of a test of some drawing API extensions I wrote a while ago. All the shapes are drawn with code, corner rounding curves are achieved using the ‘capStyle’ argument when setting the lineStyle, easy as that! The colour of each ring is based on an HSL colourwheel.
33 Comments so far
ahaha, nice stuff!!!
Dont you want to release a win version?
I don’t have screentime for windows, sorry. If I could afford $200 for another version, I would…
pixelbreaker, ran across your blog, love the clock. made a win version with screentime. email me and i’ll send it to you to post on your site.
If you want to make a quick windows screensaver just use http://www.creamshavers.com/. I “borrowed” the swf and it worked fairly well, it just doesn’t center it on the screen.
If you tweak the SWF i’m sure it would look great on windows.
I tried that screensaver maker, and it’s no good, once you’ve installed it, you have to install the shockwave player 10. no-one bothers with shockwave these days…
Any change of a Source release, pretty please? : )
Throw in this trick, and you have a pretty slick background: http://www.macosxtips.co.uk/index_files/set-screen-saver-to-desktop-background.html
Sorry about that, i must have shockwave install from playing online games. I never realized it used it.
I’ve heard of this free screensaver maker, but its an installer http://www.instantstorm.com/.
Ale, I’m not going to release the source for this, sorry.
Your screensaver is up and running in Jaylandcentral. If it breaks my machine I will break you and feed you to my army of otters. You have been warned Gabeatron.
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It’s really, really good. And I don’t even like screensavers. Too bad the PC version causes my machine to go bonkers at 100% CPU activity and duplicate itself to 3 processes that won’t shut down. If you’ve got a solution to make Polar work despite this, please post it – I’ll be grateful.
Gorgeous. I hope someone wants to manufacture this as a wall-clock and you make millions, hundreds, tens of thousands.
Very very cool clock function…. very nice.
what i dont understand though is:
if this is supposed to be a screen-saver, then the fact that after the intial load the month/day etc dont move…. which kindof nul-an-void the whole reason for a screensaver…
whats the point…
but as a graphic, its brilllant
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Hi,
Nice work!
Take a look at http://www.clockness.com
A lot of cool screensavers
Amon
hey this thing’s awesome!
is there any way to take it and put it on a blog?
robat
This is awesome…great work on this!! Will be watching updates on the widget!!
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