[adventured]

It's quite impressive, beautiful and smooth in motion.

I have to second what someone else said, it could be made into an amazing wall clock (and even a small desk unit). There is a lot that could be optionally (settings) done to manipulate its aesthetic qualities in various directions to match personal preferences, times of day, events, and so on.

[arethuza]

Would be cool to replace the years with "Year in Decade", "Decade in Century", "Century in Millennium".....

[elefantastisch]

Or maybe just have year go from 00-99 and repeat as people commonly do anyway.

Current implementation of year definitely doesn't make sense because it doesn't cycle.

[arethuza]

I admit I was probably influenced by thinking of Anathem

[zentiggr]

One of my favorite Stephensons.

[thebiss]

I have the complete OPPOSITE experience: the motion is jerky and inconsistent, like the seconds are struggling then catch up. (Firefox 74 on Windows 10 18363)

[gnabgib]

Concur. Since someone described it as 'beautiful and smooth' I opened it in Chrome.. beautiful and smooth (80% of the time). Since it's "just" SVG transforms perhaps this is a firefox:chrome difference (that said, I've built SVG transforms that run fine on both). It does invent the universe 31.25 times/second.. perhaps there's some JS optimizations we can do. [Update: basically smooth in IE11 too]

[thebiss]

Fixed. In Firefox, verify the GPU is enabled in `about:support`. In this case, I had to reset `layers.acceleration.force-enabled=true`.

[stan_rogers]

I'm good with the same browser and OS, machine's an i3 7100 with 8GB RAM using the CPU's graphics, so nothing special at all.