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WARP9 TM Low Visual Signature Technology DESIGN LOGIC: The Disappearing Act Modern technology produced Kim Lighting’s new WARP9 luminaires, but the camouflage principles behind it were learned instinctively from nature thousands of years ago. WARP9’s fundamental approach is the same as those used by wildlife and hunters for millennia: hide, blend, and deceive. There are two basic elements of camouflage: shape and color. WARP9 capitalizes on both of these principles in unique ways to reduce perceptual attraction and luminaire detection. First, WARP9 utilizes a computer generated low-profile compound curve design to create a natural compact top arc that reflects the sky from normal viewing angles. This breaks up the luminaire’s outline, disrupting its silhouette and evening out its 3-dimensional surface, making it more difficult to see as one object. This reduces visual mass, and allows the viewer to envision the entire site without disruptive and massive luminaire shapes to draw attention away from architecture and landscape. Second, WARP9 utilizes a hollow mounting arm that gracefully blends with the housing, and minimizes its visual signature. Kim Lighting has also developed a unique color scheme to further reduce the luminaire’s visual signature. VISUAL STEALTH TECHNOLOGY : New Stealth Gray Finish Color is essential to camouflage, as its similarity to the primary background will tend to break up that area of the outline and blend the shape away from normal detection. Over 100 painted samples were tested and reviewed to determine how well they matched the predominant colors of contemporary architecture, typical horizons, and northern hemisphere skies. These were then narrowed down to a few prototype samples that were field tested for visual acuity, perception attraction, and detection reduction. The result is Kim Lighting’s new Stealth Gray finish option featuring a light gray hue suitable for any outdoor environment. However, designers can select from a wide variety of standard and custom finishes depending on application and immediate background surface coloration. 6 KIM LIGHTING
WARP9 TM FPO AERODYNAMICS: Small Size • Low EPA Specify Kim Lighting’s new Stealth Gray finish to further reduce the fixture’s visual signature. Featuring a light gray semi-gloss surface, Stealth Gray is a result of an extensive study of finishes and paints for typical application scenarios in natural or architectural environments. A welcomed result of WARP9’s thin design is a very low EPA rating, suitable for installation in almost any environment, including high wind, coastal, and hurricane prone locations. Kim Lighting recommends mounting WARP9 luminaires on round poles to further improve aerodynamics and lend to the fixture’s camouflaged appearance. Round poles have less visual signature than square poles. WARP9 Small Housing and Arm EPA (WP9SE): 0.52 WARP9 Large Housing and Arm EPA (WP9LE): 0.95 Note: Pole selection and height will also determine final EPA allowance for your application. KIM LIGHTING 7
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