http://www.clarifyscience.info/assets/day_of_dots_clock A View from the Back of the Envelope top A dot for every second in the day Getting a feel - a clock [g10x1_0] [g10x1_1] [g10x1_2] [g10x1_3] for big numbers [g10x1_4] [g10x1_5] [g10x1_6] [g10x1_7] [g10x1_8] Lots of dots [g10x1_9] [g10x1_10] A dot for each day You can use Lots of dots to get a feel [return to static page] for time. (Any problems? Please let me At one dot per second, know.) here is what a day looks like... [starting... ] One Day where each dot is 60 x 60 x 24 = 86400 one second. s / day +---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | [g100x100_a] [g100x100_a] [g100x100_a] | | [g100x100_a] [g100x100_a] [g100x100_a] | | [g100x100_a] [g100x100_a] [g10x100_a] | | [g10x100_a] | | #########******[g10x1_10][g10x1_c][g10x1_c][g10x1_c]**** | |[p] [g10x100_c] | | [g10x100_c] | | [g10x100_c] | | ##########** | | [g10x100_z] | | [g10x100_z] | | [g10x100_z] | | ------------------------------- | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +------------------------------------+ |00:00 to 02:47|- 05:33 |- 07:10 | |--------------+----------+----------| | - 11:06 |- 13:53 |- 16:40 | early | |(1:53 pm) |(4:40 pm) | daytime |--------------+----------+----------| late | - 19:27 |- 22:13 |- 24:00 | | (7:27 pm) |(10:13 pm)|(midnight)| +------------------------------------+ * one second [g10x1_a] ten seconds # hundred seconds (10 x 10 = 100) about a minute and a half [g10x1_c][g10x1_c][g10x1_c][g10x1_c] minute (60 [g10x1_c][g10x1_c][g10x1_a][g10x1_a] seconds; 6 x [g10x1_a][g10x1_a] 10) 5 minutes (300 [g10x10_c][g10x10_c][g10x10_c] seconds; 3 x 100) [g10x10_c][g10x10_c][g10x10_c] 10 minutes (600 [g10x10_c][g10x10_c][g10x10_c] seconds; 6 x 100) [g10x10_c][g10x10_c][g10x10_c] 15 minutes (900 [g10x10_c][g10x10_c][g10x10_c] seconds; 9 x [g10x10_c][g10x10_c][g10x10_c] 100) [g10x100_a] thousand seconds (10 x 10 x 10 = 10 x 100 = 1000) about 15 minutes [g10x100_c] [g10x100_c] hour [g10x100_c] 3600 seconds (60 seconds per [g10x10_c][g10x10_c] minute x 60 minutes) [g10x10_c][g10x10_c] 3 x 1000 plus 6 x 100 [g10x10_c][g10x10_c] +---------------------------+ |[g10x10_c][g10x10_c] | | |[g10x10_c][g10x10_c] | | |[g10x10_c][g10x10_c] | | |[g10x10_c][g10x10_c] | | |[g10x10_c][g10x10_c] | | |[g10x10_c][g10x10_c] | | |[g10x10_c][g10x10_c] | | |[g10x10_c][g10x10_c] |6 x | |[g10x10_c][g10x10_c] |6 = | |[g10x10_c][g10x10_c] |36 | |[g10x10_c][g10x10_c] | | |[g10x10_c][g10x10_c] | | |[g10x10_c][g10x10_c] | | |[g10x10_c][g10x10_c] | | |[g10x10_c][g10x10_c] | | |[g10x10_c][g10x10_c] | | |[g10x10_c][g10x10_c] | | |[g10x10_c][g10x10_c] | | +---------------------------+ [g100x100_a] ten thousand seconds almost 3 hours (2 and 3/4 hours) 10^2 x 10^2 = 10^4 (10000 ; ten thousand ) +------------------------------------------------------+ |[g10x100_c] | |[g10x100_c] | |[g10x100_c] | |[g10x10_c][g10x10_c][g10x10_c][g10x10_c][g10x10_c] | |[g10x10_c][g10x10_a][g10x10_a][g10x10_a][g10x10_a] | |[g10x100_a] | |[g10x100_a] | |[g10x100_a] | |[g10x10_a][g10x10_a][g10x10_c][g10x10_c][g10x10_c] | |[g10x10_c][g10x10_c][g10x10_c][g10x10_c][g10x10_c] | |[g10x100_c] | |[g10x100_c] | +------------------------------------------------------+ [g10x10_c][g10x10_c][g10x10_c][g10x10_c][g10x10_c] [g10x10_c][g10x10_c][g10x10_c] 500 minutes (30 thousand seconds; 3 x 10^4 s; ~8 hrs) [g100x100_a][g100x100_a][g100x100_a] ~1500 minutes == 1 day (1440 min; i.e. a -4% error) +----------------------------------------------------------------+ | A View from the Back of the Envelope | |Comments encouraged. - Mitchell N Charity | +----------------------------------------------------------------+ Notes: The clock needs to "phone home" every few minutes to get a new layout with the active zone moved. Sorry. Please let me know if this is an issue. Thanks to a reader's appreciation of `Lots of dots' for prompting this page. Sometimes there is a gap which isn't colored in for some minutes. Why is the bottom-right corner of the box not filled in? Because there are only 60 x 60 x 24 = 86400 seconds in a day, but the big box is 300 x 300 = 90000 dots. So 3600 are blank.(4%) Thanks to a reader for the question. Doables: Talk about (or link to) different kinds of "day". I'm not sure this background is the right thing. [Removed] `YEAR Mon SECOND' and `Year SECOND' counters. % of day. Place 86400 near second counter. Being able to toggle the color would be neat (black is sleep, green is practicing guitar, etc). But rather more complex to program. Perhaps an ephemeral toggle on whether to color? For browsers that support div, could add time-of-day overlay. And event markers. A year-line, dot per day. (uncomfortably long?) Since 1950 stack. Reverse? Fill up with experience, rather than drain opportunity. :) History: 2015-Jul-22 Serving from another machine, to better handle traffic spikes. 2002-Jun-25 Adapted to new browsers. 2001-Aug-29 Javascript change (browser compatibility). 2001-Apr-28 Added note re "why is the box corner not filled in?" 2001-Apr-14 Some cleanup. 2001-Apr-12 Created.