OrbisTempusColorem; global times mediated through colour.
Artist: Ken DevineProgramming: Mike Blackman

Time is relative
Time is simple; time is complicated.

OrbisTempusColorem presents time in 7 Time Bands:

  1. DayTime: 16,777,216 colours per day.
  2. WeekTime: 16,777,216 colours per week.
  3. MonthTime: 16,777,216 colours per month.
  4. YearLeapYearTime: 16,777,216 colours per Year/LeapYear.
  5. HomoSapienTime: 16,777,216 colours from oldest known date of Homo Sapien to the best estimate for the end of Humankind on earth, in this case the destruction of the earth. Therefore; 200,000 years old + 5 billion to go. Total 5000200000 years.
  6. EarthTime: 16,777,216 colours from the best estimate of the age of the earth to its destruction. Therefore, 4.5 billion old + 5 billion years to go. Total 9.5 billion years.
  7. UniverseTime: 16,777,216 colours from best estimate for the age of the universe to the end of the universe. Therefore, 14 billion years old + 5 billion to the end. Therefore; Total 19 Billion years.


  Colour is relative
Colour is simple; colour is complicated.

OrbisTempusColorem is presents 34 Time Bands. They range from -12hr to +14hr. Each is represented by 3 places on the globe in this order:
Most Northerly
Midway
Most Southerly

They are not evenly distributed as land is not evenly distributed and some countries have their own unique time band. Clicking on a circle will open the Tempus Colorem for that place it should open in a separate window. You open more than one at a time.