Mirrorpan
· vV1.0.0
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Free during development period.
A salt pan at dusk, and the time standing in the water.
The clock sits on the horizon and is reflected beneath it. Not a dimmed copy —
the reflection takes the colour of the water it lies in, so it reads as a
surface returning light rather than a second clock. The numerals are mirrored
properly, drawn from their own inverted typeface, and the reflection follows
whichever clock you choose.
The sky is the face. It ramps from the deep violet of night through the hot line
of dusk to open day, and it moves with the real sun rather than a clock schedule,
so the dial you wake to is not the dial you walk home under. An airglow band sits
low in the sky at every hour, which is what keeps the pan from going grey at
night. Stars come out if you want them. A salt lattice can crust the flats.
Six skies, and each changes everything at once — ramp, terrain, and the accent
that trims the dial. Synthwave runs magenta over violet. Aurora is a green
curtain over deep ocean. Ember is volcanic. Arctic is pale cyan over slate.
Graphite drops the colour entirely. Ultraviolet is electric over indigo.
Four ways to draw the time: a light geometric face, numerals written in single
brush strokes, extruded blocks with real depth, or a seven-segment panel with its
unlit segments ghosted the way a real display shows them. All four mirror.
A formation stands on the horizon behind the clock — a volcano, a range, or
trees — and you place it, size it, and colour it, or take it away.
Eight readouts, two in the sky and six on the water, each bound to whatever you
like from a catalogue of dozens. The water ones sit on plates that float clear of
the surface, and each can show a value, a value with its icon, or its share of
the goal as a percentage. Everything below the waterline is coloured together,
everything above it together, because water tints what it reflects.
The always-on is the same face simplified, not the same face dimmed. The clock
keeps its style and keeps its reflection, faintly, over a sky reduced to a few
bands and the formation's silhouette. The date sits above the time as it does on
the lit dial, the battery is yours to add, and the whole drawing shifts as the
minutes pass so nothing bright sits in one place all night.
Set the sky, the clock and the terrain from the watch itself. Press and hold a
readout to open the metric behind it.