A Clock #204

This generative token is based on a project I originally coded in late 2014, possibly my first creative project in JavaScript during graduate school at NYU ITP, which has run here since then: https://rossgoodwin.com/clock

The text in this case is not generated, but rather (legally) snipped from public domain e-books on Project Gutenberg (https://gutenberg.org/), and recontextualized as a real-time clock.

The editions vary in color palette and font choice, each with unique text for every minute determined by the clock's unique hash. For nearly all word/phrase blocks in the template system, there exist 512 possible excerpts you could receive, and countless possible combinations thereof. Additionally, 16 possible color palettes, 8 possible fonts, and many bezel types will determine your clock's visual appearance.

Unlike my original 2014 iteration, I wrote this clock in Vanilla JS with zero dependencies. (Largely, that's thanks to eight additional years of programming experience.) As a result, it's faster (once loaded) and more responsive as well.