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Reading Time in the Tradition Hour

Mondrian Mode

The goal here was to keep most of the fun

of the Random Hour Mondrian Mode, but

make it faster and easier to read. There

are 12 segments around the outer edge

located similiarly to a normal clock face.

The position of the

3 o'clock

minutes are read the same as before. This

mode loses the yellow hours and some of

the random fun, but, it is faster to read.

Reading the Time in TimeArt Mode

The design goal was to make reading the

time relatively easy and add more color.

No tricky 5 minute circle or having to add

up hours, or tens-of-minutes. You just look

at the position of the

and look at the position of the

the 5's of minutes. Then just a little addition

of the randomly placed

This mode gains you a lot of color, is not

as stark looking as some of the simpler

Mondrian times, and is easy to read.

R e d

is the hour. The

Y e llo w

for the hour,

whi t e

G r e e n

minutes.

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One tricky thing about the TimeArt Mode

What happens when the hour and the fives

-of-minutes want to use the same square?

This happens at times like 2:10, 3:15, 4:20,

etc.

That segment slowly pulses yellow-

white-yellow-white for 5 minutes, until the

5's of minutes moves to the next segment.

Because yellow and white are similiar in

brightness, it can be confusing until you

get used to it. In my last clock, I used red &

white, but that felt garish in the TimePortal

and damaged the purity of the art.

One last thought on the Mondrian Mode

In the pure Mondrian Mode, clock's orien-

tation is not important for reading the time,

so you can put the clock in landscape

(horizontal) rather than portrait (vertical).

A wall mounting hole is cut in the back,

near the clock's center of gravity, for those

for

of you who wish to wall hang it this way.

There are four switches on the front of

the clock. The microprocessor checks the

switches once a second to see if you are

pushing one or more of them. As you push

a switch, the display blinks and there is a

soft "click sound" from the speaker (unless

you have turned the volume all the way to

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The Switches

Time Shown