Channel 4 Clock real time recreation

http://lhutton.host.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/releases/C4Clock/tvfsplash.jpg

Hi! I haven't ventured here for quite a while so let me find my bearings.

I found the abstract clock thing on Channel 4 quite mesmerising, and wondered
whether I could build a realtime recreation of it. This is my first stab at it,
so perhaps a bit rough around the edges, but it's a start!

A few screenshots of some choice times...








And a video of it in action...


I currently only have a Mac version available here (47 Mb) . If there's any
interest I'll try to get a Windows build sorted. Just extract the zip and it
should run...hopefully. This isn't signed so you may have to hit some
buttons in the Security prefpane to let you run it.

Nothing in the way of customisability yet, but again, if
there's any interest I can throw in custom sound cues or colour control or
whatever seems important in a barely-readable clock, as well as options to scale
up or down the visuals for different hardware (at the moment I can only vouch
that this works on my own machine, so, good luck!) You may struggle without a
decent discrete GPU, but YMMV.

Anyway, yes, it's a pointless toy, but maybe you can baffle your coworkers by
taking over public displays with an illegible clock.

Known issues: the ticks aren't quite synchronised to the audio...

If this is of any interest to anyone give a shout and I can try to make it
better/more available. Will try to get the code on GitHub soonish.

Happy ticking. I guess it's good to be back?

Knew somebody would have a crack at that eventually. Haven't got a clue what time it is but who cares - it's gorgeous!

This is a fantastic recreation.

I, for one, would love you to make a Windows downloadable version, but a really great job.

One of the mocks of the year. Would love a Windows download!!!

It's a great recreation but I cannot tell where the seconds are as the seconds seem to stop 3/4 and stay their,

Heh, there's actually no second hand because I wasn't entirely sure that the original had one, but will probably add one in a bit...

It runs like pap on my older 17' Macbook Pro, but then I tried it on my new one and wow it's nice. Only thing I would say is there is a tiny bit of clipping where the hands stop the blocks, and also the height of your invisible hands is too tall, in the real one blocks can build up and fall over it. But yeah keep going, really good, guessing unreal engine? Would love to see it on github.

^^^
Don't even attempt it on a MacBook Air (guess who did that?)

Worked fine on my MacBook Air though?

Went to pot on mine.

I guess my 2013 MacBook Air is biting the dust

Okay, I've just opened it on my iMac and... holy crap that's amazing.