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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: Dan on September 14, 2011, 08:35:54 am

Title: Osaka Station City clock
Post by: Dan on September 14, 2011, 08:35:54 am: Love this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gusJeslMbLc
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Post by: Andrew on September 14, 2011, 09:02:08 am: Thats excellent. Do you think you would need planning to get one at Dalmore?
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Post by: wytsend on September 14, 2011, 09:02:56 am: Well that is a clock with a difference !!!!! ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Post by: Rosemary on September 14, 2011, 09:18:24 am: I think it's beautiful.
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Post by: Greenerlife on September 14, 2011, 09:24:19 am: mesmerising. I expect lots of people miss their trains watching it! ;D
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Post by: Roxy on September 14, 2011, 10:06:33 am: Now that would get our local planners in a spin. No excuse for being late for work if we had one of those around the place!!!
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Post by: Fleecewife on September 14, 2011, 11:58:35 am: How do they do it ie make the shapes with pouring water? Or is that a dumb question?
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Post by: Dan on September 14, 2011, 12:17:36 pm: I'm guessing it'll be a bit like old dot matrix printers, 'printing' a line at at time.

Using lots of valves that open and close according to a set pattern with a reservoir above and a pump to circulate the water. The water will always fall at a predictable speed thanks to gravity so it's all about the timing.

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:D
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Post by: Fleecewife on September 14, 2011, 01:35:29 pm: A bit like a jaquard machine then, or an automatic organ or polyphon. Very clever.
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Post by: suziequeue on September 14, 2011, 01:44:47 pm: I don't know ...... It's very lovely but when I look at a clock - it's because I want to know the TIME.

Sorry to be a killjoy :P
Title: Re: Osaka Station City clock
Post by: Dan on September 14, 2011, 01:59:17 pm: Quote from: suziequeue on September 14, 2011, 01:44:47 pm
I don't know ...... It's very lovely but when I look at a clock - it's because I want to know the TIME.

But if you were sitting waiting for a train for 20 minutes, wouldn't you choose the Osaka clock over this:

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/ba/Station_clock_-_geograph.org.uk_-_593381.jpg)

:D
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Post by: suziequeue on September 14, 2011, 02:05:51 pm: Yes - quite agree Dan ..... But if my train is late I while away my time looking at TAS on my iPad ;D ;D ;D
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Post by: Dan on September 14, 2011, 03:39:08 pm: ;D

By the way, we have improved layouts for iPad, iPhone and other mobile devices coming soon. :)

I'll contact you for iPad testing since we don't have one. :'(
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Post by: suziequeue on September 14, 2011, 04:45:06 pm: Delighted to help. It works very well as it is though
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Post by: waterhouse on September 15, 2011, 11:26:13 pm: As I sit in bed catching up on my iPad I'm also wondering what the difference is
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Post by: Dan on September 16, 2011, 06:50:52 am: Quote from: waterhouse on September 15, 2011, 11:26:13 pm
As I sit in bed catching up on my iPad I'm also wondering what the difference is

Nothing at the moment, and now I look there's actually no need for an iPad style since it's got a resolution large enough in landscape to accommodate the site. ::)

Ignore me, an early senior moment. :D
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Post by: waterhouse on September 17, 2011, 12:22:54 am: Though have just found I was unable to navigate round quoted text in a reply. I couldnt scroll the text in the window
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Post by: Dan on September 17, 2011, 01:31:19 pm: Quote from: waterhouse on September 17, 2011, 12:22:54 am
Though have just found I was unable to navigate round quoted text in a reply. I couldnt scroll the text in the window

Thanks, noted, will try to sort this when I come to do the mobile styling (it'll be at least a week).