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Steampunk clock & calendar yahoo widget |
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Friday, 12 November 2010 |
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Here is the first cut image of a Steampunk clock & calendar yahoo widget
that I just created using photoshop and an idea from the PC computer
game Jeff Wayne's War of the worlds. In that game there is a neat idea
of time manipulation where the game play is speeded up or slowed down by
the use of a one-way time machine. This was done by moving an in-game
gadget which displayed a calendar/clock in a very steampunk fashion.
This was the source of my limited inspiration. I decided to use it as
the visual core of a javascript program and then I realised that I could
also create a Yahoo widget from it.
So, that's what I'm going to do. I have the .js code to create a working
clock/calendar. I even have a photoshop plugin that recognises layer
sets and automatically creates yahoo widget code and images all ready to
go. Basically it seems you can create a widget from any photoshop image
you have. So, assuming this is within my capabilities I will create this
widget and document the process here.
I intend to add:
1. A similar old-style-digital clock read-out on the top (with a brass
bell) as a test to see how it looks.
2. Some working hands to the analog clock. It will keep time of course.
3. The slider will cause the calendar to scroll backwards/forwards in
time and the hands on the clock to whizz round. Not much else at the
moment as I don't have a working time machine.
4. The pendulum will move.
Apart from that it will tick and chime. Eventually.
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