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+ Sometime around 1996, when I was working for CompuServe, I saw a lovely demonstration of an + electromechanical watch that used a sort of domino face to tell the time. I liked it so much that + when I was looking for a toy project for my first Java Applet, I decided to implement the + algorithm of the watch. +
++ 25 years later, I found the source code buried somewhere in an old CD. I decided to try an + re-implement the logic in Javascript, and to experiment with a hand-written + Web Component. This is + the result. +
++ It might seem a bit silly to have implemented the seconds face when the minutes face has a + resolution of only five minutes, but it allows you to watch the clock in operation and learn what + each symbol means: an empty face is 0 (12) and all four pips visible is 11 (or 55 + minutes/seconds). +
++ The source code, both for this project and for the Java original, + are available at my personal Git repository + at ElfSternberg.com. +
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