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

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. During World War I, Allied navies started implementing shocking ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For instance, ships travelling at an angle of up to 25 ... The American Experience - Peace Conference & Homecoming However, dazzle painting may not have been completely ineffective, researchers ...

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 ...