PROJECT: HMS BELFAST

LIGHTING DESIGN: MINDSEYE LIGHTING LTD

MANUFACTURER: LIGHTING EFFECTS DISTRIBUTION

Mindseye adopt the role of 'camoufluers' of HMS Belfast. Harking back to the era of dazzle ships, where colour and shape were used to disguise the shape and direction of battle ships from the new predatory threat of the u-boats, the Mindseye scheme is inspired by the Imperial War Museum exhibition 'Camouflage'.

With the combined use of theatrical moving head projectors and RGB LED projectors, Mindseye will be injecting colour and dazzle patterns onto the ship through the use of gobos. Fittings are placed on the deck and off the ship covering large surface areas of the hull and upper decks. Projections of geometric dazzle patterns obscure the vessel; after a short length of time they begin to merge and intersect each other to form very complex and disruptive patterns, almost making the vessel unrecognisable. Using colours that react with the current colour scheme as well as overlaying colours and patterns over the ship's facade, HMS Belfast is the 'razzle dazzle' of the Thames.