What this blog really needs is an "illusory axonometric timepiece". And here it is: the latest Impossible Object comes courtesy of the Australian architects and designers Clarke Hopkins Clarke.We've featured faceless watches a number of times before but this display is rather more elegant than previous LED crypticness... It's basically a parallelogram formed from multiple, differently positioned clock hands (speeded up, somewhat, in the video below).
The Melbourne architects writes:
Previous Impossible Objects we've covered:
Time is parallel. The speed of time (on earth) is indubitable but everyone's perception of the speed is somehow different. Using multiple clocks and cables to create a number of parallelograms, a design is generated: the Parallel of Time. The parallelograms are interconnected, creating an optically illusory axonometric timepiece.Want to see it in motion?
Mechanically speaking, since the hands on every clock (within the same time zone) produce the same angle, the lengths of the connecting cables remain constant as the clocks run. The hour and minute hands are positioned on either side of the glass to prevent cable collisions.
Previous Impossible Objects we've covered:
- the Upside down buildings
- the wall-sized light switch
- the liquid table
- the liquid lamp
- the foetal bed
- the
flying
carpet sofa
- the electric
butterflies
- the wall
stairs
- the other
dimension storage
- the Colt
electric guitar
- the piano
stairs
- the clock
that draws the time
- the pocket
light folding bulb
- the shattering
door
- the wooden
mirror
- the inside-out
salt shaker
- the Wingdings keyboard
- the door
lock maze
- the dark
lamp
- the global
chess board
- the curved
keyboard
- the implausible
plug
- the infinite tap
- the simplified calculator
- the electric hammer
- the signature coffee pot