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Author Topic: Dropclock - 137MB screensaver  (Read 9243 times)

justice

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Dropclock - 137MB screensaver
« on: April 01, 2008, 03:36 AM »
I think this is a case of love / hate. What to do with 137MB? install 5 copies of windows 95? or a signle screensaver (it IS very nice) and pay $15 to register it:

Dropclock is an aesthetically intriguing motion clock screensaver. Every minute of real time is numerically expressed with heavy helvetica dropping into water in super slow-motion.



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« Last Edit: April 01, 2008, 03:38 AM by justice »

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Re: Dropclock - 137MB screensaver
« Reply #1 on: April 01, 2008, 08:05 AM »
Are you sure this doesn't belong in the April Fools thread?
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Re: Dropclock - 137MB screensaver
« Reply #2 on: April 01, 2008, 08:47 AM »
I downloaded it but don't really like it too much. I like my screen saver subtle and I don't like a clock that has a '6' that turns around in the water making it 14:29 instead of 14:26.

Clever idea, but a no from me.
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Re: Dropclock - 137MB screensaver
« Reply #3 on: April 01, 2008, 10:22 AM »
we just need one with comic sans and some piranhas in the water  :Thmbsup:

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Re: Dropclock - 137MB screensaver
« Reply #4 on: April 01, 2008, 05:52 PM »
I guess it's 137megs because everything is pre-rendered?

Would've been cooler with something real-time rendered... the demoscene could probably do it in 64kb and almost as nice looking :)
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Re: Dropclock - 137MB screensaver
« Reply #5 on: April 01, 2008, 07:16 PM »
yeah its prerendered it's a bunch of swf files, one must read out the time and the others are the animations probably in flash video showing the digits.