The university has released research which looks into how effective the technique was.

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Aston University scientists revisited a century-old experiment and uncovered that perception, not paint, played the biggest role in the confusion. During World War I, ships were painted with geometric ...

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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 ...

The dazzle effect was just 7 degrees of misdirection ... “The only course open is to paint [each ship] in such a way as to deceive the attacker as to her size and course,” Wilkinson wrote ...

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 ...

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 ...

The primary role of the dazzle paint scheme was to disrupt the ship's outline. Although the scheme made determining a ship's size, range, and speed difficult, advancements in rangefinder and radar ...

Ukraine's navy released images of vessels with what is likely a dazzle-camouflage paint job. It stems from a WWI-era tactic to make it harder for the enemy to gauge a ship's speed and direction.