[Watch Faces] - Recent ones

Hi guys, it’s been a while since I posted here, but i haven’t disapeared. I have been seeing some great new stuff from you all. Here are a few new ones I have created over the last few months.

Sliding Time - Weather
Unique sliding bars scroll up/down to indicate the time. Carefull, it can be mesmorizing to watch! Digitall zoom & colour filter is incorporated into the current time on the sliding bars. Current weather condition is shown in the background.

12/24 hour mode compatible.

Steps are on the left, temperature on the right.

Battery level bar on the left side of the screen. Colour changes from green to yellow to red as level drops past 60 then 30%.

Earthrise Bar Graph

This is a bar graph update to my popular Earthrise series. A Tribute to the iconic Apollo 8 original photograph. This is an update to my previous x/y graph with a bar graph for temperature trends. One of my favourite faces…

The globe accurately rotates to your location on earth and places the red cross-hairs to your location (+/-800km). You can watch the dark side shadow cascade across the globe relative to the sun’s location. As the day passes, the dark side’s shadow shifts every hour. In the morning, you can see the shadow retreat as daylight approaches your location. At noon, the earth is fully illuminated. At midnight the globe is fully engulfed in it’s own shadow.

Seasonal changes are implemented once a month, as the earth rotates around the sun. The solar plane graphically changes depending upon the location of the earth in the solar orbit due to the axial tilt of 23.5 degrees. The solar plane is represented by the yelow line, and you can see the seasonal changes to the shadow angle as it cascades acrross the earth daily.

Current weather condition, temperature, location is on the left. A graphical forecast showing the daily trends for the next 5 days is on bottom. Celsius and Fahrenheit both work fine. When there are extreme weather trends varying from the weekly average, the graph can get a little wonky where data points may even extend to be on top of the day of the week text or the condition icons.

Sunrise and sunset times are on the right side.

A battery level graph is accross the bottom. Green above 60%, red below 30%, and yellow in between.

A daily step count is on the bottom right.

12hr / 24hr / Fahrenheit / Celcius / AOD mode compatible.

Matrix

Simple theme clock on the movie. This probably ages me… ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Also shows:
-Current weather condition and temperature at the top left

  • Steps at the top right.
    -Watch battery level bar under the clock. Green when above 60%. Red below 30%. Yellow in between.

12/24 hour mode compatible. Imperial/Metric compatible.

Fire Blue Bar
Here’s a different spin on a fire blue font with a bar graph.

-Watch battery level meter is on the bottom. Green if level is above 60%. Yellow if level is between 30 and 60%. Red if level is below 30%. Colour coded digital readout.
-Steps meter is on the top right. Red if amount walked is less than 3000 steps. Green if amount walked is over 6000 steps. Yellow in the middle. Progress from left to right. Colour coded digital readout to nearest 0.1k steps.
-Daily weather forecast condition icons are left side of the screen, along with the weather station location. Daily high/low temperatures are graphed below the forecast icons, to show the temperature trends.
-Current moon phase is on the bottom.
-Date is above theweather graph.
-OLED, AOD mode, 12 hour mode, 24 hour mode compatible.

Blue Flame 3
-New Blue Flame animated font up top
-Watch battery level meter is on the bottom edge. Green if level is above 60%. Yellow if level is between 30 and 60%. Red if level is below 30%. Colour coded digital readout.
-Steps are on the right and are a colour coded digitally to nearest 0.1k steps. Red if amount walked is less than 3000 steps. Green if amount walked is over 6000 steps. Yellow in the middle. Progress from left to right.
-Daily weather forecast condition icons are at the lower half of the screen, along with the weather station location. Daily high/low temperatures are graphed below the forecast icons, to show the temperature trends.
-Curren weather condition icon is on the left, along with temperature. It is day/night aware.
-Current moon phase is on the right.
-Date is above the time in light blue.
-OLED, AOD mode, 12 hour mode, 24 hour mode compatible.

Inferno
-New Inferno graphical font really pops!
-Watch battery level meter is on the bottom edge. Green if level is above 60%. Yellow if level is between 30 and 60%. Red if level is below 30%. Colour coded digital readout.
-Steps are on the right and are a colour coded digitally to nearest 0.1k steps. Red if amount walked is less than 3000 steps. Green if amount walked is over 6000 steps. Yellow in the middle. Progress from left to right.
-Daily weather forecast condition icons are at the lower half of the screen, along with the weather station location. Daily high/low temperatures are graphed below the forecast icons, to show the temperature trends.
-Curren weather condition icon is on the left, along with temperature. It is day/night aware.
-Current moon phase is on the right.
-Date is above the time in light blue.
-OLED, AOD mode, 12 hour mode, 24 hour mode compatible.

Modern Spinners Bar
Bar graph versions of my older popular Modern Spinner collection

Moonie
No backyard astronomor should be without this watch face. Simple moon phase forecast for the next 8 days. Current moon phase is top and centre with the next days progressing from on the left to right accross the middle.

Also shows:
-Current weather condition and temperature at the top left
-Steps at the top right.
-Watch battery level bar under the clock. Green when above 60%. Red below 30%. Yellow in between.

12/24 hour mode compatible. Imperial/Metric compatible.

Sol Orrery
A Mercury, Venus, Earth & Moon (Luna), Mars & Saturn Orrery.

This one is different than my previous Orrery models, where instead of an animated gif for the earth/moon, I am using mathematical expressions to calculate the moon’s orbit around the earth, and the size of the moon as it goes in/out of the foreground. As far as i can see, none of the other solar system models in Facer use this technique. Basically, it calculates an orbit, around an orbit, and then it calculates the size of the moon as it goes around the 2nd orbit. Plus I added Mars & Saturn.

-Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars & Saturn orbit the sun. The Earth spins, at 23.4 degrees to the orbital plane. Earth’s year orbits the sun once every 15 seconds. Mercury’s year is accurate relative to a realistic 1/4 of the Earth’s year, Venus’s year is accurate to a realistic 5/8 of an Earth year, Mars’s year is accurate to 1.89x Earth’s year, and Saturn’s year is accurate to 12x Earth’s year. Earth’s Moon, Luna, is orbiting the Earth as well. Orbital scaling is off, to make the model more visually appealing.
-Current Weather Condition, which is day/night aware is bottom left, with current temperature.
-Watch battery level dial window is on the left. Green if level is above 60%. Yellow if level is between 30 and 60%. Red if level is below 30%. Colour coded digital readout.
-Steps dial window is on the right. Red if amount walked is less than 3000 steps. Green if amount walked is over 6000 steps. Yellow in the middle. Progress from left to right. Colour coded digital readout to nearest 0.1k steps.
-Current moon phase is on the bottom right.
-Date is by the moon phase at the bottom right.
-OLED, AOD mode, 12 hour mode, 24 hour mode compatible.

Sol Resistance Squadron
The Resistance is everywhere, even in our Solar System. A Mercury, Venus, Earth & Moon (Luna), Mars & Saturn Orrery.

This one is different than my previous Orrery models, where instead of an animated gif for the earth/moon, I am using mathematical expressions to calculate the moon’s orbit around the earth, and the size of the moon as it goes in/out of the foreground. As far as i can see, none of the other solar system models in Facer use this technique. Basically, it calculates an orbit, around an orbit, and then it calculates the size of the moon as it goes around the 2nd orbit. Plus I added Mars & Saturn.

-Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars & Saturn orbit the sun. The Earth spins, at 23.4 degrees to the orbital plane. Earth’s year orbits the sun once every 15 seconds. Mercury’s year is accurate relative to a realistic 1/4 of the Earth’s year, Venus’s year is accurate to a realistic 5/8 of an Earth year, Mars’s year is accurate to 1.89x Earth’s year, and Saturn’s year is accurate to 12x Earth’s year. Earth’s Moon, Luna, is orbiting the Earth as well. Orbital scaling is off, to make the model more visually appealing.

Earthshade Day Night Trend Bar
Bar Graph update to my popular Earthshade Day Night Trend face. There are a few unique features of this watch face.

  1. The Earth is in the middle of the screen, rotates such that your location is towards you, and your longitude/latitude crosshair lines are shown in red, with an accuracy within the circle. At high noon, the earth is in full daylight. At midnight, the earth is in full darkness. As the day progresses, and on an hourly basis, the earth shadow cascades accross the earth, and then recedes, depending upon the time of day. Your location will accurately be shown in shadow or daylight.
  2. The Earth in the middle of the screen is accurately tilted by 23.5 degrees to the solar plane. As seasons change you will see the yellow line in the middle of the earth represending the solar plan shift on a monthly basis to reflect the location of the earth in the orbital plan, relative to the 23.5 degree tilt, relative to the solar plane.
  3. The hours of daylight and night time are reflected in the pie graph around the earth. The top of the pie in light blue during the daytime, reflects the amount of dalight hours of a 24 hour clock, with hours 0 and 24 at the bottom centre, 12 noon at the top centre. This light blue area turns dark blue at night time. The sunrise hour is on the right indicated in yellow. The sunset hour is on the left indicated in grey. A bright navy blue line indicates the current time of the 24 hour clock.
  4. The 5 day weather condition forecast is at the bottom, along with a bar trend graph of the daily high and low temperatures.
  5. The current moon phase is on the moonoribitting the earth, about once every 15 seconds.
  6. Steps are on the bottom right.
  7. A battery level progress bar is on the very bottom edge. It is green when the battery is above 60%, red below 30% and yellow in between.
  8. Current temperature is on the top switching from left to right side opposite the blue 24 hour clock bar. Current location is at the top centre.

24 hour or 12 hour mode compatible. Imperial or metric compatible. Regular or AOD mode compatible.

Barrel Bar

Bar Flip

Window of Time
-Current weather condition text is displayed inside the minute hand, and fills the background with a visual. -Current Temperature text is inside the hour hand.
-Steps always opposite the hour/minute hands. Always moving.
-Date always this side of hour/minute hands. Always moving. -Seconds wheel flying around the clock.

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The truth … that I am speechless …

Your work is impressive :100: :clap: @bradtc
I imagine that the programming was very broad and mathematical :writing_hand: :rocket:
I congratulate you … :wink:
Very Very cool !!!
I also really like the themes of space, galactics and our solar system …
I congratulate you again
Cordially

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Thanks @cardozo198013
Yes, there is typically allot of math involved in my watch faces. I am not much of a fan of simply slapping on a graphic and the time and calling it a day. Finding the right expression to follow your will is the challenging part of this hobby that I enjoy. As an Engineer, I am not very artistic in graphical arts, but I do see the beauty in the mathematics & like to use it to build the ideas I come up with or from inspirations by others. I also always prefer to make dials mathematical rather than rotating graphics, as it provides potential for colour changes, digital zoom, etc.

:beer:

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woah, that looks like a lot of work! My only suggestion is not about the faces, but about separating into multi-posts here. The app for me never can seem to handle a post that has 3 or more faces in it. Even now on my PC the animation of each is a little choppy because there are so many in this one post. I realize that’s more of a pain, but I think it helps people find your work.

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For sure a fair point @kvansant. I’m finding I’m in this forum infrequently & so have so far posted chunks at a time. I’ll try to to post smaller bits more frequently.

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‘Focus’, young padawan!

The Red Baron - a world war I fighter pilot ace -, when asked the secret to his success said, “it’s simple, I find one target and kill it; only then, do I move onto the next”.

Volume isn’t value. Tons of great ideas, and all a credit to your imagination. Now, take the one idea - you feel is the best one - and make it perfect,… and then make it real. Rich (MACH-1)

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Hi Brad - I have been searching for some help on an idea and came across your post. I would like to copy something similar to your Window of Time face that is moving the seconds around the face.

I want to move an image or shape around the face to represent the Month of the Year i.e January would show at the 1 o’clock position, February at 2 o’clock etc.

Unfortunately, my skills haven’t progressed to the mathematical solutions so I’m stuck with “slapping an image on” or pilfering ideas from the pioneers on the forums.

I haven’t been able to find an example that I can work from but perhaps I’m not wording the search phrase properly. If you (or anyone else!) could provide the correct formula for the movement, I would really appreciate it.

Apologies for resurrecting an old post but I’ve only just recently had the idea.

Thanks!!

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Hi @tramilo68 ,

Sure, glad to help. I guess it depends upon how you want to move this image. If the month is at the 1, 2, etc… oclock positions, it suggests an orbital equation. But then you’d have to round it to every 30 degrees, and since every month varies from 28 to 31 days, it just makes it a pain in the butt, so I wouldn’t do it this way. I’d just stick to the coordinates to make it easy.

Put the following expression in both the X & Y cordinate boxes for the image you want to move around. Substitude the Zn for the actual X & Y coordinate of location of the image you want for that month (#DMM#).

$#DMM#==01?Z1:$$#DMM#=02?Z2:$$#DMM#=03?Z3:$$#DMM#=04?Z4:$$#DMM#=05?Z5:$$#DMM#=06?Z6:$$#DMM#=07?Z7:$$#DMM#=08?Z8:$$#DMM#=09?Z9:$$#DMM#=10?Z10:$$#DMM#=11?Z11:$$#DMM#=12?Z12:$

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@bradtc

This is absolutely perfect!!!

Thanks so much for your help :grin: :+1:

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I LOVE LOVE LOVE Window of Time. It has the quality of being deceptively simple, but utterly compelling to look at. You pack a punch with few elements.

The others are just incredible - my head hurts thinking about the work that goes into these.

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Thank you @alwaysbusy4family . I am honestly a bit taken aback that this old thread with these old faces is getting any attention. :grin:

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