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Andrés Colubri, Processing for Android, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-2719-0_11

11. Visualizing Time

Andrés Colubri

(1)Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

Displaying the time is one of the main functions of a watch, and in this chapter we will learn how to apply Processing’s drawing API to experiment with different visual representations of time.

From Sundials to Smartwatches

The visual representation of time dates to the beginnings of civilization, when sundials were used to keep track of the time during the daylight hours. Mechanical pocket and then smaller wrist watches have been in use since the sixteenth century. In the digital era of the past few decades, electronic watches with multiple features became ...

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