The global yacht coatings specialist manufacturer has created its Color Configurator to inform paint choices for all markets. This tool additionally offers a linked 3D design lens to simulate what the chosen hues might look like in every lighting state, from dark shade to the brightest sunlight.
It’s a well-proven truth that it’s much easier to decide what you like by seeing how things look in practice. Many daily decisions are often more informed by what we don’t like than the choices we ultimately prefer. That applies particularly to anything so personal and subjective as colours.
You can go some way towards picking a paint by using colour cards with comparative sample chips. But immersive visualisers enable you to take your imagination to another level. You can focus much more thoroughly on every hue option, choice by choice, to make emotionally driven but equally well-informed decisions.
Visualising yacht coatings before painting
Responding to this demand, ALEXSEAL Yacht Coatings recently launched a digital Color Configurator, hosted on its website and accessible on desktop and mobile devices. This tool lets you visualise the company’s comprehensive standard range of 121 solid and metallic shades on five generic models – motor yacht, sailing yacht, picnic boat, sportsfisher and superyacht.
When operating the configurator, you choose which kind of yacht is the closest match to your boat. You are also provided with three areas for personalisation: the hull, the superstructure, and the boot stripe. This provides a fascinating opportunity for virtually endless experimentation to examine how ALEXSEAL’s comprehensive choice of coatings will work in combination to create the essential personality and wow factor of the yacht.
The user interface is intuitive, with a series of simple controls at the foot to select the type of yacht and the area you want to shade, with a slider showing the array of paint options for six main colour groups for a range of 76 solid coatings and five main colour groups across 45 metallic finishes. You can immediately switch your chosen colourways to each of the yacht models without starting again.
Understanding the impact of light and shade
So far, so good, but an understanding of how any marine coating will look very much depends on how the light hits each shaped section of the hull and superstructure – and, of course, how much light is available in the first place.
ALEXSEAL has addressed this by providing its Color Configurator with a 3D design lens. One side comprises convex and concave surfaces; the other, angular facets. You use your mouse or trackpad to spin the lens or flip it to see how light and shade react with your chosen paint colour. There’s even a simulation of how the reflection of water, sun and background silhouettes will appear on the contoured surfaces.
For any marine coatings applicator, this feature is incredibly useful in helping customers select the right shades long before committing to the painting process. It also helps to set expectations regarding how the colours will appear on elements of the boat design that are typically shaded and how the overall look might work in different climates.
Downloading a reminder of your marine paint choices
Once you have colour selections sorted, you can also use the sidebar on Color Configurator to download a PDF reminder of chosen options along with a visual of the yacht model. This document also contains helpful links for further information.
Intrigued? Then, give this freely accessible tool a try by visiting www.alexseal.com/color-configurator
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