What can you do in 30 lines of JavaFX? JFXStudio is running a contest right now to find this out…
http://jfxstudio.wordpress.com/2009/08/31/jfxstudio-challenge-small-is-the-new-big/
I strongly encourage you to give it a try. So much so that I took a quick stab at putting together a sample myself this evening. Welcome to the Time Wheel:
Everything is rendered using JavaFX Shape and Text primitives with clever PerspectiveTransform effects applied. I also made use of an overlay gradient Flooded and Blended on an outer group in order to create the top and bottom shadow giving it a rounded 3d appearance.
