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   Sophie 🎲🧩🏳️‍⚧️ (sophie@dice.camp)'s status on Thursday, 22-Jun-2023 21:51:05 JST Sophie 🎲🧩🏳️‍⚧️

   Okay, I have a working prototype (which spent way too long to make, why am I coding on an iPad???)

   I have quickly realised that the hour markers are not in the wrong place because of a bug, I just misunderstood how the thing would work.

   I’ll look into a fix tomorrow but for now (as you can see), it’s late. I need sleep.

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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Thursday, 22-Jun-2023 21:51:02 JST silverwizard

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     @Sophie this is exceedingly cool!
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     Sophie 🎲🧩🏳️‍⚧️ (sophie@dice.camp)'s status on Thursday, 22-Jun-2023 21:51:03 JST Sophie 🎲🧩🏳️‍⚧️

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     I did it! I made an epicycle clock!

     Check your loopy time here:
     https://sophiehoulden.com/randomstuff/epitime/

     :blobcathug: and clacke like this.
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     Sophie 🎲🧩🏳️‍⚧️ (sophie@dice.camp)'s status on Thursday, 22-Jun-2023 21:51:04 JST Sophie 🎲🧩🏳️‍⚧️

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     Okay I couldn’t sleep so I just solved the issue. Rotation needs to be based on ‘parent’ epicycle rotations, which is not really a behaviour of epicycles usually but whatever, this makes a cool clock. I’ll fix it up with numbers tomorrow and share it.

     Masanori Ogino 𓀁, :blobcathug:, Paul Cantrell and Aral Balkan repeated this.
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     :blobcathug: (jain@blob.cat)'s status on Thursday, 22-Jun-2023 23:24:34 JST :blobcathug:

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     @Sophie thats cool
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     Sophie 🎲🧩🏳️‍⚧️ (sophie@dice.camp)'s status on Friday, 23-Jun-2023 05:48:56 JST Sophie 🎲🧩🏳️‍⚧️

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     quick evening update: 24 hour mode, and also a seconds cycle (it does not improve readability! :P)

     https://sophiehoulden.com/randomstuff/epitime/

     Aral Balkan and clacke repeated this.
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     Sophie 🎲🧩🏳️‍⚧️ (sophie@dice.camp)'s status on Friday, 23-Jun-2023 05:48:57 JST Sophie 🎲🧩🏳️‍⚧️

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     If you enjoy things like this, consider supporting me on patreon!

     I'm currently working on an epicycle art app, and a super in-depth jigsaw puzzle app!
     https://www.patreon.com/SophieHoulden

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     Sophie 🎲🧩🏳️‍⚧️ (sophie@dice.camp)'s status on Monday, 31-Jul-2023 12:30:15 JST Sophie 🎲🧩🏳️‍⚧️

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     Saw that my epicycle clock was getting noticed a bit again, so I finally took the time to make it use vector graphics - you can zoom in and it still looks good!

     https://sophiehoulden.com/randomstuff/epitime/

     Fun bonus: Animated time offsets, watch it go spinny!

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 31-Jul-2023 19:17:37 JST Aral Balkan

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     @Sophie I really can’t express with words how much I love this :) (And how much I’d love to have it up on my wall as a physical device… as daunting as engineering those arms would be.) :)

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     Oli (olivernoble@mastodon.world)'s status on Monday, 31-Jul-2023 19:47:26 JST Oli

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     • Aral Balkan

     @aral @Sophie i thought the same, the creativity behind the animation is lovely, - made real would be fantastic