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Nautical Barometer & Clock

A s a kid, I frequently visited both my Grandparents houses. In their hallways, was a strange wooden clock, with letters instead of numbers on the face and a brass dial you could turn and set yourself. It wasn't until I was much older (old enough to reach it!) that I came to question what exactly it did. It turns out, what I thought was a peculiar clock was a barometer. A device used to measure atmospheric air pressure and indicate how likely the weather will change in the day. In the 20th century, before mobiles and the internet, fishermen out at sea for weeks relied on instruments such as this to get a heads up on the ever-changing weather. Since I had this connection, a first-hand real-world memory of it, I found creating a model of the device for D_ROGUE lots of fun. A s it is something I am so familiar with, I could visualise the steps in order to recreate it digitally in 3D. As I wanted to create the whole thing anew (including a clock), it took a bit more time than I anticip