The Pulse clock face

Pulse

Digits struck through by a running waveform. The trace reacts to the second, flattening between beats and spiking as each one lands, so the face reads as an instrument rather than a display.

A louder relative of Aurora, sharing its palette and none of its restraint.

Settings

  • Background color color
  • Second hand on / off
  • Glass effect 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 Pulse and removing it again is covered on the help page, together with what to do when the screensaver does not start.