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Glyph Matrix creations

Clock faces, games and visualisers for the Glyph Matrix

The Glyph Matrix on the back of the Nothing Phone (3) is a small round grid of LEDs. I wanted watch faces and music visualisation worth looking at, so I built them.

Skeleton watch faceA watch face on the matrix that mimics a mechanical skeleton watch, with a balance wheel and a 3D tourbillon.
Music looksMusic visualisation on the back of the phone, from a radial spectrum to a cassette.
Companion appsMy other apps borrow the matrix: an aircraft radar, a capture countdown and a stops-to-go counter.

625 dots of untapped potential

The playful stuff was already there when I got the phone, but the practical stuff was bland. The clocks looked boring. Where was my music visualisation? It felt like so much untapped potential.

Felt like a digital potter puppeteer with a magical portal of clay pixels on strings.

A skeleton watch, then music

A watch face that mimics a mechanical skeleton watch, with a swinging balance wheel and a 3D tourbillon. Every hand, wheel and cage is drawn with 625 dots and a handful of brightness levels.

Then a few games, and music looks: a radial spectrum, twin needles, an oscilloscope and a cassette.

It reaches into my other apps

Altiscope puts a live radar of nearby aircraft on the matrix. Noxpose shows capture progress there while the screen stays dark. Zarc Transit counts down your stops on a ride.

A glyph editor is in progress and coming soon.

Sharing, for now

Much love to for the SDK that makes custom builds like these possible.

Sharing them is harder. From 2027 Google will require developer registration and ID for every Android app, so I can't easily hand these creations out.