Authored pixels
The type and art come from exact matrices. Every lit cell has the same physical scale.
The visual system
A watch built from cells.
One small framebuffer. Authored type and icons. A little color, a brief gesture, and room to read the time.
The impossible schoolyard watch
The constraints are the character.
A small, earnest device trying to deliver more graphics and useful information than its fictional hardware should allow.
- Framebuffer
- 150 × 150 source cells
- Each cell
- One solid 3 × 3 square
- Active frame
- 450 × 450 pixels
- Icon artwork
- 15 × 15 inside a 16 × 16 tile
Time leads. Weather, date, steps, and battery stay concise. There are no seconds; ambient removes every non-time field.
Presentation loop; device captures are under Examples.
A small palette, with a purpose.
Weather uses at most four visible colors. Battery tints are a separate status accent.
Truthful information
Missing weather gets a neutral icon and --. Stale data and unit conversion have explicit contracts.
Motion with an ending
Fresh weather gets one short gesture on Wear OS, then returns to its resting frame.
Wear OS is the baseline. The Amazfit Balance adapter shares the static artwork; animation, custom units, and stale-age semantics differ. Platform comparison and evidence ↗
Bitmap type.
A reviewed time cut and a compact 5 × 7 vocabulary, with retained comparison cuts.
Browse glyphs
Icons, cell by cell.
A 15 × 15 drawable field centered on cell (7,7). The final storage row and column stay empty.
Utility and state.
White text stays consistent while the battery icon reflects its coarse state.
A brief weather gesture.
Eight exact frames at 4 fps. Wear OS plays once on visibility and returns to frame 1. Amazfit remains static.
Preview loops start automatically with a one-second resting gap. Pause or step through any frame; Play once shows a single gesture. Reduced-motion preferences start previews still.
This is a source-art inspector. Wear OS playback remains one-shot; these loops are for browsing.
On the watch.
Dated, unretouched runtime captures. Device, provider, and acceptance limits belong to each record.