Interesting photoshop experiment.
A little backstory:
I had two rather large projects that never quite got off the ground. One was a big free-standing clock that featured a tellurion dial (moving model of the earth, moon & sun). The other was very similar to “Perth”, which was a wall-hung mechanical with a perpetual-calendar dial.
I spent quite a bit of time on drawings and mechanical plans for both, but unfortunately they’re dead in the water. This is a sad reality for me, because they would have been epic!
Then yesterday I tried this - I used the drawing of the wall hung piece, but photoshopped the tellurion dial in place of the perpetual one. And voila!
I think the curls of the sun work really well with the curls that sprawl from the numbers.
Note that there are two versions - One has tabs representing the equinox and solstice. The other would have them wrapping around the inside of the ring, which allows the globe to be bigger. Not sure which one I prefer.
Maybe someday this one will become a reality….
maybe