He painted model ships in dazzle patterns and placed them in a mechanical test theater with a periscope, like those used by U-boat captains, to measure how much onlookers' estimations of the ships ...

During World War I, Allied navies started implementing shocking, cubist-inspired “dazzle” paint jobs on ships ... an idea to reconfigure ships to look like floating islands lush with foliage.

Scientists found that while the dazzle effect may have played some role in distorting perceptions of a ship’s movement, they also discovered similar effects with ships painted in standard ...