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3d Clock with geartrain

by Michael Agostini

17 Jan 2006 (Updated 24 Jul 2009)

Code covered by BSD License

A clock built using a general 3d rendering engine which supports shafts, gears, and clock-hands.

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Description	This is a clock rendered in 3D. The file 'myclock.m' is code for a rendering generic 3D image made up of the basic objects: hands, shafts, and gears. It wouldn't necessarily have to be a gear train driven clock. The file 'clockFeatures.m' defines all the data required to create my clock. Eventually I would like to have my 3D data read from an xml file instead of from an m-file. There is placeholder code in myclock.m for this future functionality.
Acknowledgements	This submission has inspired the following: GEAR3D
MATLAB release	MATLAB 7.1.0 (R14SP3)
Other requirements	Tested on Windows XP. Requires R14 (uses function handles and timer objects).
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Other Files	clock/clockFeatures.m, clock/myclock.m, license.txt

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Comments and Ratings (16)
18 Jan 2006	Robert Young	Clever. What are the .exe and .ctf files for? It works fine without them.
20 Jan 2006	Michael Agostini	The .exe and .ctf files are for stand alone execution. You don't need them to run the application in MATLAB. Stand alone execution requires that you have the MATLAB Component Runtime (MCR) installed, too.
25 Jan 2006	Jiro Doke	Very nice. It gave me insights to creating complex objects using SURF (as opposed to PATCH), thus speeding up the animation updates. I was able to get it to work on R13 with minor modifications.
03 Feb 2006	Nick Cheilakos	Excellent work.
09 Apr 2006	Jahanzeb Rajput
10 Apr 2006	Roberto Matiasich
11 Apr 2006	Haroon Janjua	Good Work Yar.........its cool
11 Apr 2006	prasantakumar majumdar
12 Apr 2006	Dev Sagar	Beautiful but useless
05 Aug 2006	timeport yaknov
15 Nov 2006	cu zn	nice
29 Nov 2006	Shad Harris	Gears all to ratio and functional. Nice work.
21 Jan 2008	Saima Riaz	gr8 .... work... keep it up...
26 Feb 2008	RAAED sadoon	NICE
12 Feb 2009	Luigi Giaccari	Very Very Very Nice
12 Feb 2009	Jveer	nifty

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Updates
24 Jul 2009	Removed .ctf and .exe files. Updated copyright statements.

Tag Activity for this File
Tag	Applied By	Date/Time
clock	Michael Agostini	22 Oct 2008 08:12:43
fun	Michael Agostini	22 Oct 2008 08:12:43
clock gear 3d graphics engine	Michael Agostini	22 Oct 2008 08:12:43

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