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#cistercian

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grz0zrg

Experiment with #Cistercian numerals extended to base 16, rearranged so it map to binary, a #glyph depict 16-bit numbers with quadrants depicting nibbles (4-bit), quadrant order is untouched.

4 original Cistercian numbers are mapped on power of two :

0001 -> 1 (Cistercian representation)
0010 -> 2
0100 -> 4
1000 -> 6

All nibble numbers are then defined by mixing those.

Packed all my tiny intros with these glyphs for fun, replacing stave by a dot makes cool glyphs. (and is less ambiguous)

All my demoscene tiny intros binaries packed as 16-bit extended Cistercian numerals, bottom right show all possible patterns that a quadrant can take from 0 to 15. The color depicts a single executable, it is quite easy to see the ones that have non overlapping headers (such as my early Linux ones) as they have a bunch of 0 / padding at the beginning. Vertical stave is replaced by a dot here. (safer for some glyphs and i think it looks cooler)
All my demoscene tiny intros binaries packed as 16-bit extended Cistercian numerals with the names of each intros in order. This is an early version with a vertical stave and some 1px cuts.
All my demoscene tiny intros binaries packed as 16-bit extended Cistercian numerals. Early compact version again with a vertical stave and some 1px cuts.
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Brie Mmm

This is #Wąchock #cistercian abbey; despite later changes, one of finest and best preserved #Romanesque monasteries in #Poland. Founded in 12th century as #Morimond daughter house, has one peculiarity.

See the stripes on church walls? The masons used two kinds of stone, that is, blonde and red sandstone. Same concept was consequently used to decorate interiors.

The columns weren't painted, shafts and capitels were made of differently coloured stone, just like church walls. Same method repeats in other places.

Now look again at the church exterior. Look at its gables. In late 15th century they were raised, the vault and roof rebuilt, to better fit Gothic aesthetics. But — there's something I don't understand. Look closer.

See how the stripes reveal original, Romanesque shape. The new part, forming much sharper Gothic gable, no longer follows the pattern. Still both red and blonde sandstone was used — but the colours are mixed, in stark contrast to regular rhythm below.

Now I know that such decoration was no longer fashionable at the end of Middle Ages. But — the masons were just extending the walls; the same quarries and stones were available to them. Were they so oblivious to visuals, concerned only of basic, physical function of the wall? What about the abbot, who commissioned and supervised the works? It sticks out like a sore thumb.

view from distance; behind a stone wall, an old church with adjacent monastery. The church is striped in horizontal, white and red, bands, the monastery (massacred into Baroque form in later centuries) is all white.
chapterhouse interior. The vault is supported by columns, whose shafts are made of red standstone, and capitels – of blonde.
one of church's gables. We see striped wall, two rose windows with striped borders… but top of the gable is no longer striped, just a random mix of colours
#architecture#medieval#middleAges
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Damon L. Wakes

I made some tiny tweaks to my Cistercian numerals watch face. The date and step count numerals are now just a little bit bolder, and there's finally a way to see the remaining battery power on screen: that thin black border around the edge will gradually shrink into the corners as it drains.

I finally thought to take a photo towards the end of the day when the time numeral is fairly complex!
#ESP32 #CPP #Watchy #watch #Cistercian #CistercianNumerals #programming #microcontroller

A photograph of a Watchy - an e-paper smartwatch - with three Cistercian numerals on screen representing time, date, and step count. A thin border runs around the edge of the screen.
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Damon L. Wakes

My Cistercian watch face is basically finished! I've added numerals for date and step count, and tweaked the style of the diagonal lines (though I may tinker with that further). The one thing left is to add some way of displaying remaining battery life, but that'll likely be a bar rather than a numeral. Amusingly, this is two years to the day since my previous attempt at this project: damonwakes.itch.io/hibernation
#ESP32 #CPP #Watchy #watch #Cistercian #CistercianNumerals #programming #microcontroller

A photograph of a Watchy - an e-paper smartwatch with a black metal case - showing three Cistercian numerals on screen. A large one on the right has a value of 1631, meaning that it's 16:33 in the afternoon. There are two smaller numerals stacked vertically to the left of it. The upper one has a value of 1212, meaning that it's the 12th of December. The lower one has a value of 12, indicating that I've taken twelve steps since flashing this code to the watch.
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Damon L. Wakes

I've improved my Cistercian watch face. I found the first version a little hard to read at an angle because of the chunky frame of the Watchy's aluminium case, so I've reduced the overall size of the numeral and beefed up the thickness of the lines. One downside is that the diagonal lines (not shown) are now a little too chunky, but that's okay because the style should be much easier to adjust in future.
#ESP32 #CPP #Watchy #watch #Cistercian #CistercianNumerals #programming #microcontroller

A Watchy (a smartwatch with an e-paper screen) with a single Cistercian numeral on it. Its value is 217, meaning that it is 2:17am.
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Damon L. Wakes

A while back, I made a Bitsy Jam game about trying and not quite managing to make a watch that displays the time in Cistercian numerals: damonwakes.itch.io/hibernation

Almost two years on, I'm happy to say that I've finally done it! I'd still like to add a battery indicator (and if I'm feeling really fancy, numerals for the date and a step counter), but I'm quite happy with the minimalist look of this as-is.
#ESP33 #CPP #Watchy #watch #Cistercian #CistercianNumerals #programming #microcontroller

A photo of a Watchy - a watch-format ESP32-based development board with an e-paper screen - in an anodised aluminium case, worn on the wrist. The screen shows a single, large Cistercian numeral. Its value is 123, indicating that it is 1:23am.
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