The Grimoire clock face
A recording of the Grimoire screensaver in motion.

Grimoire

An astrolabe of invented make: three rings turning at their own rates, the outermost carrying the hours in a script that was never used anywhere. The glass over the rings catches light as they move.

The calendar ring follows a lunar month, which drifts against the civil one by design.

Settings

  • Background color color
  • Second hand on / off
  • Date on / off
  • Glass effect on / off
  • Calendar on / off

Download

The engine needs a graphics card that supports the system graphics API: Direct3D 12 on Windows, Metal on macOS, Vulkan on Linux. In practice this means two things:

  • a physical machine with a graphics card is required, a virtual one will not do;
  • on Linux the graphics drivers have to be installed and configured.

Installing Grimoire and removing it again is covered on the help page, together with what to do when the screensaver does not start.