Epicyclic 3D Clock for IOS 9 devices.
This application is designed with xCode 7.2 entirely written in swift language.
The application requires iOS 9.2.1 or later on iPhones 5s and later.
It is a simple apps running in real time syncing with your time setting on your iPhone. It is a 3D animation for the friends and enthusiast of mechanical clocks. All parts in this 3D animation are mechanically functional. Update of this application has additional features and added user interface options.
Vision 1.1 Build (3)
Added an Alarm Clock feature. Alarm hour and minutes are configured by a time picker pop up. The Pop Up of this time picker is triggered by a swipe down gesture. The reset button removes the time picker popup menu once ne minutes and hours for the alarm is selected.
Simple Stop Watch option activated by start and stop buttons. Reset button will restore Day of the week and Time display text field. This textfield is shared by Stop watch and Day of the Week and time display.
Moon Phase life picture from US Navy Observatory. This feature requires Internet Access. This feature is activated by a swipe Right Edge Gesture. A Popup Error text with warning if Internet Access is unavailable on the host device. Press reset button to remove error popup. Live picture of current Moon Phase Complication can be removed at any time by pressing the reset Button.
A help text and technology history text is available as a popup textview overlay. The user has scroll up and scroll down inaction to read the user instruction and or historic background reading of the clocks historical back ground. The reset Button will move the text overlay.
User can rotate the 3D view of the clock by swiping right and left gesture in 15 degree steps.
Vision 1.1 Build (3)
Added an Alarm Clock feature. Alarm hour and minutes are configured by a time picker pop up. The Pop Up of this time picker is triggered by a swipe down gesture. The reset button removes the time picker popup menu once ne minutes and hours for the alarm is selected.
Simple Stop Watch option activated by start and stop buttons. Reset button will restore Day of the week and Time display text field. This textfield is shared by Stop watch and Day of the Week and time display.
Moon Phase life picture from US Navy Observatory. This feature requires Internet Access. This feature is activated by a swipe Right Edge Gesture. A Popup Error text with warning if Internet Access is unavailable on the host device. Press reset button to remove error popup. Live picture of current Moon Phase Complication can be removed at any time by pressing the reset Button.
A help text and technology history text is available as a popup textview overlay. The user has scroll up and scroll down inaction to read the user instruction and or historic background reading of the clocks historical back ground. The reset Button will move the text overlay.
User can rotate the 3D view of the clock by swiping right and left gesture in 15 degree steps.
The story of the actual Clock Design and History
An English man William Strutt designed this Skeleton Clock in the 1820's and his friend William Wigston built it. Because of the difficulties involved in making epicyclical gears very few were made by Strutt and Wigston.
The great W.R. Smith Master Clock Maker of Tennessee USA documented and replicated this extremely unusual masterpiece . The great Clayton Boyer designed the Wooden Clock version. This EpicCyclic Clock has a number of interesting and extremely unusual features not found in other clocks.
The motion work is based on the Ferguson Mechanical Paradox instead of the normal 12 to 1 gear train. The Epicyclic Clock Both beautiful and unusual in the extreme, this clock is an excellent time keeper, which any Clockmaker will be proud to have made.
The great W.R. Smith Master Clock Maker of Tennessee USA documented and replicated this extremely unusual masterpiece . The great Clayton Boyer designed the Wooden Clock version. This EpicCyclic Clock has a number of interesting and extremely unusual features not found in other clocks.
The motion work is based on the Ferguson Mechanical Paradox instead of the normal 12 to 1 gear train. The Epicyclic Clock Both beautiful and unusual in the extreme, this clock is an excellent time keeper, which any Clockmaker will be proud to have made.
I created this iPhone 3D version of the Epicyclic Clock in almost respect to William Strutt who in the 1820 designed and made the original Epicyclic Clock. This iPhone application is dedicated to these Master Craftsman and friends of mechanical clock and wooden clock design.
to view and download from the apps store use this link:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/epicyclickclock/id1068289369?ls=1&mt=8
to view and download from the apps store use this link:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/epicyclickclock/id1068289369?ls=1&mt=8
Use these options to view the Clock in 3D space
User has swipe gesture activated options to interact with the clock.A swipe gesture from the left of the screen will active a live view of the current moon phase. The image view requires Internet Access. There is a text popup in place of the image if access to the internet is not available. The reset Button removes text popup or live moon picture from the 3D view
Right and left swipe gesture allow the user to rotate the 3D View for viewing the 3D clock mechanics.
A swipe up gesture activate a popup time picker transparent overlay. The user can select hour and minute setting to choose a time for the alarm clock feature. When iOS device time and time picker hour and minute values match an alarm sound will be play if the clock is in foreground and active.
Swipe Down Gesture opens a text view overlay. It contains a brief introduction of the seven user interface options. Clicking the reset button removes and closes the overlay. This text view allows the user to scroll thru the entire length of the information and read about the history of this particular unique clock design.
In this 3D animation you have a true real time functional skeleton clock on your iPhone. This is a true unique special clock with a rich history.
In this 3D animation you have a true real time functional skeleton clock on your iPhone. This is a true unique special clock with a rich history.
Please contact soundmagic2015@gmail.com for suggestions and questions
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