Bouncy Ball Clock

Bouncy Ball Clock is a novel clock representation that uses four chambers of elastically colliding b

Description

Bouncy Ball Clock uses four chambers of bouncing balls to represent the time. The upper-left hand chamber contains the same number of balls as the hour. The upper-right hand chamber contains the same number of balls as the minutes past the hour. The lower-left hand chamber has the same number of balls as the seconds past the minute. The lower-right hand chamber has one ball during the AM and two balls during the PM.

• MATLAB release: MATLAB 7.0.4 (R14SP2)

[Xu maibi]

good

[John D'Errico]

Disappointing. In the release I tested it in (2006b, Mac) no figure actually appears, at least until I hit ctrl-c. Of course then ctrl-c tends to inhibit the clock activity.

Beyond that, use of a global variable (named data!) here for no good reason seems to be poor programming style. I'd expect better here. I won't offer a rating because I could not actually test the clock.

[Duane Hanselman]

An observation: The programming expertise of new Mathworks employees does not match the minimum expectations of long MATLAB users. Maybe Brian is working in food service, building maintenance, or is a summer college intern at TMW. A disclaimer acknowledging his position would help sooth the feelings of the long timers here who find this submission well below minimum expectations.

[vj]

Amazing work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Mr Smart]