WW1 Razzle Dazzle ship camouflage
"Most camouflage is based on the idea of concealment and blending in with its surroundings. However another school of thought has argued for making the item in question appear to be a mashup of unrelated components. Naval camoufleurs found this theory particularly appealing. Blending didn’t work because ships operated in two different and constantly changing color environments - sea and sky. Any camo that concealed in one environment was usually spectacularly conspicuous in others.
Norman Wilkinson, a British naval officer and painter, suggested a scheme that came to be known as Dazzle or Razzle Dazzle painting. Wilkinson believed that breaking up a ship’s silhouette with brightly contrasting geometric designs would make it harder for U-boat captains to determine the ship’s course."
(FoundNYC Inc, 4 April 2009)
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Simon PerkinsSHARE
Heterotopia: a boat is a floating piece of space
"If we think, after all, that the boat is a floating piece of space, a place without a place, that exists by itself, that is closed in on itself and at the same time is given over to the infinity of the sea [...] the ship has not only been for our civilisation, from the sixteenth century until the present, the great instrument of economic development [...] but has simultaneously the greatest reserve of the imagination. The ship is the heterotopia par excellence."
(Michel Foucault)
This can of course extend to oil rigs as Justin Beal in his oil + water paper indicates.
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The Constellations ProjectSHARE
