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Pražský Orloj: Prague astronomical clock simulator. (2022)

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This completely missed the point of visiting Orloj. You don't go there to see the clock, you go there to see the animated skeleton.

Slovak 80s pop rock band Elan even made a song about her: https://youtu.be/1Gctnn-vCfM

"Tourists, sparrows, school trips, orloj and apostles. Skeleton is standing on the side and everybody is afraid of her..."

True. But, it's also a clock, which is presumably difficult to read, hence the simulation.

Literally listened to it today in the car (I have a soft spot for Elán). Also, as someone who lives in Prague, I don’t really go anywhere near the clock. That’s tourist land. It doesn’t feel like home.

Lived for some time five minutes walking from the Clock, and so I can heartily appreciate the old Prague joke:

“Daddy, why they call it the tourist season, when we cannot shoot them?”

> [Smrtka] is standing on the side...

I had a moment of cognitive dissonance when skimming through a recent russian WWII series about a group of (Yak-1?) pilots and the romances between them, for at one point there was a SmerSh (Smert Shpionen) agent, and —unlike in Bond flicks– he was a good guy.

EDIT: looks like it was Истребители (2013).

https://math.ru/lib/files/pdf/4kolmogorov.pdf

Eww Elan. I hated that band all my childhood for the music but Lead vocalist Ráž who was voicing support for Mečiar, Fico, Castro, and Putin is not giving me enthusiasm even today.

The first day after the lockdowns here I went to Prague. It was amazing to see the clock and Charles bridge without the usual crowds of tourists.

Looks amazing! A wonderful simulator of a piece of history, a work of art in itself, and an open source reusable component(Although it doesn't look easy to make embeddable), perfect for HA dashboards.

Check out the other stuff on their GitHub, they have some more cool time/weather/astronomy stuff.

But, if you want to simulate the Prague astronomical clock in style, check out the Quake-like FPS game HROT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUuFBPN2YDE It includes the skeleton.

> It includes the skeleton

but unfortunately not the saints' days around the edge of the bottom circle: https://www.orloj.eu/en/orloj_cisiojan.htm

(you can tell the day when spanish explorers first "discovered" what would become Californian coastal cities because they named each location after which day it was they got there: San Diego, Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz, San Francisco, etc.)

In Firefox, the 24 (with the old-style 4 looking like a turned alpha) is missing from the outer dark band. However, in Edge, the 24 is there.

Love this clock, though I find it hard to read. It inspired me to make a simpler solar clock and calendar:

https://sunclock.net

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