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Polar Clock
license: gpl-3.0
<!DOCTYPE html>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<style>
body {
background: #222;
margin: auto;
width: 960px;
}
.arc-text {
font: 16px sans-serif;
}
.arc-center {
fill: none;
}
#credit {
position: absolute;
font: 10px sans-serif;
right: 10px;
bottom: 10px;
color: #ddd;
}
#credit a {
color: inherit;
}
</style>
<div id="credit">Inspired by <a href="http://blog.pixelbreaker.com/polarclock/">pixelbreaker</a>.</div>
<script src="//d3js.org/d3.v3.min.js"></script>
<script>
var width = 960,
height = 800,
radius = Math.min(width, height) / 1.9,
spacing = .09;
var formatSecond = d3.time.format("%-S seconds"),
formatMinute = d3.time.format("%-M minutes"),
formatHour = d3.time.format("%-H hours"),
formatDay = d3.time.format("%A"),
formatDate = function(d) { d = d.getDate(); switch (10 <= d && d <= 19 ? 10 : d % 10) { case 1: d += "st"; break; case 2: d += "nd"; break; case 3: d += "rd"; break; default: d += "th"; break; } return d; },
formatMonth = d3.time.format("%B");
var color = d3.scale.linear()
.range(["hsl(-180,60%,50%)", "hsl(180,60%,50%)"])
.interpolate(function(a, b) { var i = d3.interpolateString(a, b); return function(t) { return d3.hsl(i(t)); }; });
var arcBody = d3.svg.arc()
.startAngle(0)
.endAngle(function(d) { return d.value * 2 * Math.PI; })
.innerRadius(function(d) { return d.index * radius; })
.outerRadius(function(d) { return (d.index + spacing) * radius; })
.cornerRadius(6);
var arcCenter = d3.svg.arc()
.startAngle(0)
.endAngle(function(d) { return d.value * 2 * Math.PI; })
.innerRadius(function(d) { return (d.index + spacing / 2) * radius; })
.outerRadius(function(d) { return (d.index + spacing / 2) * radius; });
var svg = d3.select("body").append("svg")
.attr("width", width)
.attr("height", height)
.append("g")
.attr("transform", "translate(" + width / 2 + "," + height / 2 + ")");
var field = svg.selectAll("g")
.data(fields)
.enter().append("g");
field.append("path")
.attr("class", "arc-body");
field.append("path")
.attr("id", function(d, i) { return "arc-center-" + i; })
.attr("class", "arc-center");
field.append("text")
.attr("dy", ".35em")
.attr("dx", ".75em")
.style("text-anchor", "start")
.append("textPath")
.attr("startOffset", "50%")
.attr("class", "arc-text")
.attr("xlink:href", function(d, i) { return "#arc-center-" + i; });
tick();
d3.select(self.frameElement).style("height", height + "px");
function tick() {
if (!document.hidden) field
.each(function(d) { this._value = d.value; })
.data(fields)
.each(function(d) { d.previousValue = this._value; })
.transition()
.ease("elastic")
.duration(500)
.each(fieldTransition);
setTimeout(tick, 1000 - Date.now() % 1000);
}
function fieldTransition() {
var field = d3.select(this).transition();
field.select(".arc-body")
.attrTween("d", arcTween(arcBody))
.style("fill", function(d) { return color(d.value); });
field.select(".arc-center")
.attrTween("d", arcTween(arcCenter));
field.select(".arc-text")
.text(function(d) { return d.text; });
}
function arcTween(arc) {
return function(d) {
var i = d3.interpolateNumber(d.previousValue, d.value);
return function(t) {
d.value = i(t);
return arc(d);
};
};
}
function fields() {
var now = new Date;
return [
{index: .7, text: formatSecond(now), value: now.getSeconds() / 60},
{index: .6, text: formatMinute(now), value: now.getMinutes() / 60},
{index: .5, text: formatHour(now), value: now.getHours() / 24},
{index: .3, text: formatDay(now), value: now.getDay() / 7},
{index: .2, text: formatDate(now), value: (now.getDate() - 1) / (32 - new Date(now.getYear(), now.getMonth(), 32).getDate())},
{index: .1, text: formatMonth(now), value: now.getMonth() / 12}
];
}
</script>
@AntarjotSingh
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It's not working while I am running the same index.html on my system. The Polar clock doesn't appear. Can you help me with it??

@AntarjotSingh
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Its resolved now !! In the script tag https: is missing, so, it wasn't able to pickup d3.js

@danse
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danse commented Nov 20, 2017

thanks @AntarjotSingh that helped me today :)

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danse commented Nov 20, 2017

i like it more if the fastest arc is the smallest and the slowest is the biggest. you can see it here

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