Elliptical Horizon — Color Integration Study

How the ground fill and horizon line look at different times of day, with the clock's actual background color palette

Strategy A: Dark ground overlay (constant color, varies opacity)

Deep Night (2am)

Pre-Dawn (5:30am)

Morning (9am)

Solar Noon

Sunset (6pm)

Evening (9pm)

Strategy B: Warm earth ground (brown-green, adapts to time of day)

Deep Night

Pre-Dawn

Morning

Solar Noon

Sunset

Evening

Strategy C: Complementary darken (ground = darker shade of current sky)

Deep Night

Pre-Dawn

Morning

Solar Noon

Sunset

Evening