World Time Zones — Data Relief Wall Panel

Design story and technique This panel turns Natural Earth time zone polygons (10m, v5.0.0, public domain) into a parametric data relief: each tile carries the standard UTC offset of its polygon, and its height encodes the hour that offset reads at 12:00 UTC. Half- and quarter-hour offsets are placed between the two hour rungs. Colour groups the 24 rungs into six four-hour bands (Small Hours, Dawn, Morning, Afternoon, Evening, Midnight) so the day is readable at a glance. Technical characteristi…

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