The Colour Clock

The Colour Clock

Here is a great project that combines art and technology. The Colour Clock was created by London based digital designer Jack Hughes. It represents time as a hexadecimal color value and the background shifts to the coordinating color based on the time. Sometimes the clock moves subtlety between shades of colors, or will suddenly shift to an unexpected portion of the spectrum.

For those who are unfamiliar, a hexadecimal color value is a set of 6 numbers and letters based on a 16 numbering system used to define colors on Web pages. A hex number is written from 0-9 and then A-F.

Web colors are written as three sets of hex pairs. The first set represents the red hue, the second the green hue, and the third the blue. White is written as ff ff ff or #ffffff while black is 00 00 00 or #000000.

Mac OS X users can even download the clock as a screensaver.