thats cool

You could make BILLIONS off this.

BILLIONS.

More seriously; I love the style of it. It makes perfect sense, and it's almost completely foreign. It's like what if human pictographical evolution took a more geometric cant?

Excellent stuff.

I second this. It looks very futuristic. It'd be a welcome change from the current designs. I say, run with it.

copyright!
WINNING!

I am ready to pay for use of this, ALREADY, but I just spend my $2000.00 tax refund, the last bit, today.
Gotta wait for my regular 9 to 5 again to line my pockets once again.



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i now want this as a rainmeter clock

It's a great style and I like it! The only problem I have is the #2...it's a little hard to read. 2's are somewhat like upside down 5s when you read a clock so it'd make sense for them to evolve along that way even for a circular design such as this. All of the rest of them are great; just need to work on the 2 a little more.

I may remove the lower right segment for the 2.

Honestly, it looks far better without that segment.

I find it kind of hard to read, but that may be MORE so because I've only ever seen square digital read outs for clocks and I'm just not used to this, as opposed to it being a flawed design choice. There's no bar separating the hours and minutes though, and I'm not sure why you wouldn't want the option of bisecting the lower curved parts, but I suppose it works anyways. :3c

the original design choice behind numeric digits being the way that they were had a whole lot to do with cost, in terms of being able to plug out a ton of these digits on a modular display or what-have-you from what I understand. A lot of earlier display technologies were cheaper the less segments were needed to create a large number of characters. Most early arrays used 7 segments, with later VFDs using 14. My current one uses 12, though 16-segment modules did exist, so I guess it would be entirely possible to bisect them.

I would love to see nixie tubes like these like in this clock I got: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/2761647

That's a very nice looking design indeed. =)

since the array is segmented to allow for multiple characters to be represented on a single plane, a nixie tube wouldn't be necessary to drive the display. If you wanted something significantly antique-looking, it could be represented on a single plane with tungsten filaments in a vactube (ie: an incandescent filament display). Personally, I like the sharp, laser-like crispness of VFDs. And as an added benefit, you could actually get someone to make these digits on a VFD module, because there are still companies which will manufacture the custom display apertures for you.

I found Nixie's in a box in Albuquerque NM.
I bet if I come back there in 3 more years, they'll STILL be there.
A junk store.



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I've done same except I had X and + in the middle (like asterisk, star etc.) but you have an I and Y in there. I hope that made sense :P

VFDs rule, that's why I got them in my MD :3

Is it odd 8 scares the shit out of me?

They could totally make segmented LED displays like this, too. But I really kind of want a VFD like this now. You could probably make an alphanumeric segmented display in the same style easily enough. They did that with 7-segmented square displays by adding a few more segments in.

Looks pretty nice. Though the 2 looks kinda odd.

Love the designs, but I think think the idea of having 8 segments in the center might help better. The 2 is the main problem, it's very hard to decern at first glance. Two more diagonal bars in the lower hemisphere, or perhaps 1 could solve that "2" problem.

Such a unique design though, very nice. Would love an alarm clock with this XD

If you have any real intention of putting this to use, I think it'd be a good idea to patent that shit.

i remember those first desktop digital calculators with the nixi-tube displays. at least i think that's what they were called.
man i sure wish h.s.c. was still open. our local fry's (in roseville) seems to be trying to stop carrying ic's not directly related to current computers, (last time i was there they had a limited selection of cmos on the pegs, and no ttl at all) and nobody local has electronic surplus junk, now that i've finally got a little change i could buy some to play with if they were. the only component level reference book i could find was one cmos cookbook, which i bought.

you might have a bit more luck on some of the chinese wholesaler sites on the internet these days; they sell practically everything and some sites (like dealextreme) don't require you to bulk order. There's also alibaba but I don't go anywhere near there because it's like the wild west of e-commerce

I really like this design.

Very nice design... Except i think that 2 would be better rotated exactly one set of segments to the LEFT, and have its tail cut off.

So long as it doesn't continuously flash 12:00

But I'm starting to hate the constant blue lights in modern electronics. Give me high-intensity Orange, Red, and Green LEDs, Give me neon lights! hell give me gaslights or arc lamps, soft white bulbs, or the dark green glow of old tubes Just stop blinding me with blue!

This reminds me of a odd little display i got out of a very old TV shop: It was basically a tiny projector, with a single tiny bulb and lens for each digit. it was self contained, and rear-projected onto a tiny piece of ground glass. it uses a tiny plastic slide with digits printed on it, that is masked with a black sheet with 12 holes in it to block stray light. Sure it's not a nixie tube. a VFD, and LED or even one of those persistent image displays, But it is very unique. Using the technique along with these digits would result in a truly one of a kind display. The entire unit is about 3 inches long, and a half inch tall, Tiny for the time period i assume it came from. But it could be scaled easily i guess. -Just an idea

If all else fails, One could create a electromagnet controlled shutter for each of the segments, and shed a single light through it, similar to the mechanical flip displays on buses, only back lit That would both look, and sound awesome, despite taking a ridiculous amount of logic to do a simple task. But then again creating a VFD when there are already thousands to choose from (you could always cheat and go DOT MATRIX) seems kind of over the top, (though it would be cool ^_^ )

okay.. I'll shut up now

I would totally rock an analog clock that looked like this if they went on sale!

This is awesome :) I wish I could use it somehow.

Oddly enough, this would greatly complement Honeycomb's style~

who or what is that?

scratch that, I'm assuming you mean Android 3.0 :V

Oooh... sorry, yeah, should have specified. Durp =3=

I'm in love with this idea.

2 and 8 are a bit hard to read, though.

both would benefit from bisecting the lower half of the forms, but I wanted to make it a bit more distinct by limiting the number of segments in the display. While I think I could still improve 2 without increasing the number of segments, 8 is actually probably the best way to display it despite it looking "fat". If it were to use the form similar to its 7-segment rectangular analog, it would be nearly indistinguishable from the zero; the rounded shape of the outer segments have that strong of an impact on the visuals when it comes to glyph recognition.

How about a re distribution of the 6 outer segments?

Maybe it doesn't need to be distributed in 2 and 4 increments, but all around 6... I dunno, haha. still; i love what you did with these.

thanks for commenting btw :3

How much would you ask, for 10 specific uses, on items without being sold?
5 specific uses?
3?



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Let's talk licensing. I'm game.
ABOG Studios Inc. ©

say wha? :v

if you wish to license this design, you don't need to pay me anything. Just please give credit for the design somewhere in the project's credits, and let me know of the project you've used it in ! So that I may check it out :3

(unless you mean you're a builder of stuff and sell it -- then maybe we should talk !)

I'll be sure to credit you, and share what it's in so you can see it.
If I sell anything with it in the program, I'll inform you immediately.



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Fascinating! I'm impressed at the imagination you must had to call up to come up with this.