A reanalysis of a 1919 study suggests that a separate illusion, the "horizon effect," played a bigger role in warping visual ...

During World War I, Allied navies started implementing shocking, cubist-inspired “dazzle” paint jobs on ships. The now-iconic geometric designs were intended to throw off the visual perception ...

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 travel ...

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 ...