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08Hourglass timer — walls channeling the fall into a readable time display

Drawing two cone walls with a narrow neck as fixed cells and filling the top with sand yields a real hourglass rhythm — the upper chamber draining, the lower filling — from the fall rule alone.

Best forA countdown timer, a waiting flourish on an event page

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Hourglass timer — walls channeling the fall into a readable time display
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08 Hourglass timer — walls channeling the fall into a readable time display — Measured area 50.213% · moving frames 21/23Original by GODRICH · SCSS and React ship in the zip · Falling Sand Simulator, 9 Ways (No Library)

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Falling Sand Simulator, 9 Ways (No Library) - preview of all 9 demosFalling Sand Simulator, 9 Ways (No Library)No library, no WebGL — four rules per cell (down, down-left, down-right, sideways) make sand pile up, water flow and fir See all demos in this post

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