Yesterday I had a bit of free time and decided to code a Fibonacci Clock.

 

The idea is a fresh way of telling the time which is:

• Impractical
• Only accurate to nearest 5 minutes
• Cool af

So... wtf is a fibonacci clock? well... its the idea that every hour interval and 5 minute interval can be coded by a fibonacci value / range.

 

Fibonacci sequence to those unaware:

 

1,1,2,3,5...

starting at 1, 1+1 = 2, 2+1 = 3, 3+2 = 5, etc. So U_n+1 = U_n + U_{n-1 .}

 

So how is this used as a clock?

 

Well... you can create any number between 1 - 12 (12 hour clock values) using combinations of numbers from this sequence. For example,

 

12 Hours = 5 + 3 + 2 + 1 + 1

7 Hours = 5 + 2

2 Hours = 2

3 Hours = 3

11 hours = 5 + 3 + 2 + 1

 

etc...

 

As for minutes. every minute value divided by five can be constructed from the sequences

 

Eg

 

35 minutes = (5+7) * 5 //the *5 is not coded as part of the clock, this is universal for minutes.

25 minutes = 5 *5

55 minutes = (5 + 3 + 2 + 1 )*5

10 minutes = 2 * 5

 

Etc.

 

So. How do u represent this?

Well... the idea is to have a series of boxes, in the golden rectangle dimensions (5x8), split into the corresponding dimensions of each value of the sequence.

 

So here's what my workspace looked like after a bit of designing:

 

It's all red cause it's midnight.

 

 

How the colours work:

 

Red = add to hour only

Green = add to minutes only

Blue = add to both

(for debugging I added the realtime at the top left. If you do the maths, it's accurate! )

When i say 'add to both', I mean the value of the square (eg 5 for the right square) gets added to the cumulative calculation of the time in hours or minutes.

 

So I essentially wrote a system which tells you the time using these colours. It's cool and requires a bit of adding up, but it works.

 

• If you want, I can post the source (somewhat messy but okay overall)
• If you want, I can post a .jar download so u can give it a shot and try adding up for yourself, just let me know if u want it lol

Cool

/typing

 

Apaec

Haha, there are definitely more efficient ways of telling time but this one is by far one of the most original ones.

Will post some pictures when it's not so close to midnight for me haha!

So that you can see it in its full glory.

 

PS

White = ignore squares value

Mind blown, but it looks cool

This morning: