TheBauwssss / TimeInWords

Multilingual implementation of a word clock algorithm. Converts a timestamp to its text representation and then to a bit-mask for an LED grid. Currently supports English and Dutch.

TimeInWords

Multilingual implementation of a word clock algorithm. Converts a timestamp to its text representation and then to a bit-mask for an LED grid. Currently supports English and Dutch.

Using the time-to-text functionality

Code

LanguagePreset.Language lang = LanguagePreset.Language.English;

string text = TimeToText.GetSimple(lang, DateTime.Now);

Output

IT IS A QUARTER PAST TEN

Using the text-to-grid functionality

Displaying a time string

Code

TimeGrid grid = new TimeGridEnglish();

Bitmask bitmask = grid.GetBitMask("IT IS A QUARTER PAST TEN", true); //true: only accept exact word matches

string result = grid.ToString(bitmask);

Output

grid            bitmask         result

ITLISLSTIME     11011000000     IT.IS......
ACQUARTERDC     10111111100     A.QUARTER..
TWENTYFIVEX     00000000000     ...........
HALFBTENFTO     00000000000     ...........
PASTERUNINE     11110000000     PAST.......
ONESIXTHREE     00000000000     ...........
FOURFIVETWO     00000000000     ...........
EIGHTELEVEN     00000000000     ...........
SEVENTWELVE     00000000000     ...........
TENSEOCLOCK     11100000000     TEN........

Displaying a generic string

Code

TimeGrid grid = new TimeGridEnglish();

Bitmask bitmask = grid.GetBitMask("HELLO", false); //false: accept partial matches

string result = grid.ToString(bitmask);

Output

grid            bitmask         result

ITLISLSTIME     00000000000     ...........
ACQUARTERDC     00000000000     ...........
TWENTYFIVEX     00000000000     ...........
HALFBTENFTO     10000010000     H.....E....
PASTERUNINE     00000000000     ...........
ONESIXTHREE     00000000000     ...........
FOURFIVETWO     00000000000     ...........
EIGHTELEVEN     00000010000     ......L....
SEVENTWELVE     00000000100     ........L..
TENSEOCLOCK     00000100000     .....O.....