Warships camouflaged with zig-zags, swooping curves and bright bursts of colour became a regular sight during World War One.

The findings are published in the journal i-Perception. During World War I, navies experimented with painting ships with dazzle camouflage—geometric shapes and stripes—in an attempt to confuse ...

The British Admiralty introduced dazzle painting to camouflage its ships in early 1917, at a time when German submarines threatened Britain’s trade and supplies. They brought in painters from th ...

an ambivalence in keeping with the Dazzle Ships as vehicles of both peace and obliteration. The heavy paint they emerge from is like a fog as thick as pea soup, but we are still able to make out ...

During World War I, navies experimented with painting ships with 'dazzle' camouflage -- geometric shapes and stripes -- in an attempt to confuse U-boat captains as to the speed and direction of ...

Historians lovingly called it "razzle dazzle." The idea was not to hide the ship in plain sight. Instead, it relied on painting complex patterns on the ship's exterior so that the enemy has a hard ...

New patrol ship HMS Tamar will head to the Asia-Pacific region with a dazzle camouflage paint scheme An "iconic" paint scheme has been applied to a Royal Navy ship for the first time since World ...

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The study involved painting dazzle patterns onto a model battleship and observing how the patterns affected an onlooker’s perception of the ship’s direction of travel when viewed through a ...