lunarphase calendar for 2007

[MythMath]

Check any night's Moon Phase at a glance...

To eliminate the need for any month names or dates,
the layout for this calendar takes advantage
of our familiarity of the base-12 clockface:

1 o'clock = January
2 o'clock = February
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And our tendency to count on our digits:

Using February (2 o'clock slot) as an example:

top row = nights 1 - 10
middle row = nights 11 - 20
bottom row = nights 21 - 28

[Anibis]

That is exceptionally cool, that is. You design it? I will most cetainly make use of it. Calendrics are very attractive to me.
-Ibisis-

[Kain]

Very nice indeed!

Kain

[m1thr0s]

Interesting organization. It took me a minute to figure out the counting system but I've got it now. Just from a pure aesthetic standpoint, it would be nice to find some way to eliminate the "chips" effect. The only way I can think of to do that would be to go to black disks the size of a full moon so that as you gradually approach no moon more and more of the disks would be seen. It would also be nice if the Moon at center were a cleaner cut...

But that's all cosmetic stuff...the organization is kinda catchy in itself. For the benefit of those who don't get the counting I suppose you could include simple numerations...very small...somewhere near the bases would be my guess...

very innovative design...thought provoking I think...

m1thr0s

[MythMath]

Funny, I used to work alot 'tighter'
both in graphics and in audio...

[But perhaps now I'm over-compensating...:rolleyes: ]

I used to be convinced that my stuff felt like formica;
kinda looks like wood from across the room,
but fails to convince on even the slightest scrutiny...

So I started letting in more noise and distortion and mistakes...

I began getting a more organic feel;
like the thing could be breathing...
or snoring, maybe...

I was trying to blur the line between
the diagram and the thing itself...

I never did believe that the
map wasn't the territory...

I'm a cartographoclast...:eek:

MM

PS -

Attached below is my initial, straight-arm version
of the design, to which I think I'm partial...

I like that once you know the layout, you
can actually read this thing from a distance...

For that matter, after working with the design for only the
time that it took to create, there is enough of a visual pattern
retention that I nearly have the entire year 'memorized'...

[m1thr0s]

well, don't take my obsessive-compulsive editing too seriously...it's all just first impressions anyway...

I kind of like the straight one too...maybe it's just that the chips make more sense in the straight one...

m1thr0s

[MythMath]

I've been using this thing for a month,
and it's been right every time... :yes: :rolleyes:

Just thought I'd bump the topic...

[Ci Celli Ddu]

This looks great. If you could stick the date and the relevant zodiac sign the moon's in on that day in each pic you'd have something you could really market globally.

[Sibylle]

That's great, I love it!

[Radiant Star]

Very useful indeed.

I prefer the curved arm one today...

[Talkingfox]

That is so very elegant a design MM...gorgeous!
I'm rather partial to the curved arm one as well.

[fr.novumorganum]

useful indeed.

[MythMath]

Thanks all...

Glad to share it...
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I've made up several by printing the image on a CD label,
then applying the label to an old 'coaster' (bad CD)...
{prolongs their life-before-landfill}

With the addition of a peel&stick magnet on the back,
I have a groovy fridge or filecab magnet...

I use them as promo items for the studio, etc... ;)
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The images are actual moon photos, if you zoom enough... :rolleyes:

Next year, I'll 'crop' each shot as a circle as was suggested...

I started to re-do this one, and it did look better,
but I just didn't have it in me to do all 365 edits... :o

[MythMath]

This is all pretty cool:

http://www.moongage.co.uk/

http://www.oxpc.co.uk/moongage/moongage/images/how/pentag.gif