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The most interesting clocks, each stripped to a single self-contained file you can copy straight into CodePen and run. No shared scripts, no analytics, no chrome, just the clock and its credit. MIT licensed ; keep the header.
Cosmic & generative
Singularity A black-hole clock: a lensed accretion disk burns around the event horizon while hour, minute… Singularity
Lensing A black-hole clock that bends light: a gravitational-lensing shader warps a star field around… Lensing
Galaxy A spiral-galaxy clock: a slowly turning star disk with hour, minute and second beacons orbiti… Galaxy
Lorenz Living Lorenz: chaotic strange attractors integrated in real time and drawn as glowing ribbons Lorenz
Prime Spiral A prime-number sunflower spiral read as an analog clock: hour, minute and second hands sweep… Prime Spiral
Flow A curl-noise flow-field clock: a drifting current whose direction tracks the minute and whose… Flow
Cyclone A Southern-Hemisphere cyclone that tells the time: wind particles spiral the opposite way int… Cyclone
Quasar A black-hole clock: a doppler-shifted accretion disk spirals face-on while three photons mark… Quasar
Kinetic & mechanical
Gearwork A real clock movement laid bare: a ratio-locked train of involute gears geared 60:1 from seco… Gearwork
Rotor A dark brushed-metal rotor watch: two concentric rings of numbers turn behind fixed apertures… Rotor
Magnifier Hands A minimal clock whose hour and minute hands end in magnifying-glass lenses that enlarge and l… Magnifier Hands
Flipboard A split-flap departure board reduced to one departure: now Flipboard
Carousel Three concentric rings of numbers , hours, minutes, seconds , counter-rotate so the current v… Carousel
Tumbler Six brass odometer cylinders rotate in 3D space: the current digit faces you head-on while it… Tumbler
Rube Goldberg Minute Engine A side-view Rube Goldberg marble machine clock: fourteen contraptions fire in sequence across… Rube Goldberg Minute Engine
Labyrinth Clock A unicursal labyrinth clock: an amber marker walks one continuous path to the centre each minute Labyrinth Clock
String & living
Quipu (Braided) A full calendar census kept the Inca way, in dyed and braided cord: a swaying pendant for eve… Quipu (Braided)
Skein A handful of clocks made of hanging string: an abacus whose beads ride swaying cords, a pendu… Skein
Curtain The time as a curtain of sixty braided strings hanging in the wind Curtain
Latency Loom A clock woven from the browser's own timing jitter: structured warp-and-weft bands encode hou… Latency Loom
Surface & code
Sand The current local time written by an unseen finger into a sandy surface: large handwritten nu… Sand
ASCII Clock The time as an old dial-up bulletin board screen: big block-letter digits in ANSI colour insi… ASCII Clock
Liquid Glass A blob of liquid glass drifts across the time, bending and splitting the digits through real… Liquid Glass
Shatter Clock time read through a fracture in a sheet of cracked, refracting glass that bends and offsets t… Shatter Clock
Game of Life A Conway Game of Life clock: the local time stands steady in bright living cells while Conway… Game of Life
Honeycomb Local time spelled out across a glowing honeycomb Honeycomb
Turing Machine A one-tape machine computes local time by incrementing a 17-bit seconds-since-midnight counte… Turing Machine
Etch The whole page is twelve hours wide Etch
Neon Wall Geissler Column: vertical plasma discharge tubes filled with ionized gas Neon Wall
Cyberdeck A quiet binary clock: three rows of bits read the hours, minutes, and seconds, a lit square i… Cyberdeck