Jwz ports Dali Clock to JavaScript

http://www.jwz.org/xdaliclock/javascript/

by 100k • 17 years ago

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thristian• 17 years ago

If you're wondering why the "Orientation" control doesn't work, it seems it's using WebKit-specific CSS.

I'd always wondered where DaliClock got its fonts from, but apparently it's just got a hard-coded list of character segments.

A few years ago I figured out how DaliClock's might work in a shower-epiphany, and bundled together an experimental implementation in Python with the PyGame graphics library:

    http://zork.net/~st/pydalitext.py

...there's a bunch of stuff I could have done to make the morphing even more smooth, or to more intelligently decide how to add and remove segments to a character's scanline during a morph, but I'm satisfied with the effect I got.

100k• 17 years ago

This is his extraction of the JavaScript code from his Dali Clock port to the Palm Pre, which uses WebKit.

jwz writes about the Palm port here: http://jwz.livejournal.com/1057786.html

jcsalterego• 17 years ago

(http://hackerne.ws/item?id=676000)

Jwz ports Dali Clock to JavaScript

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