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No, these are all degrees of the same thing, concealment. That is the point of camouflage. There are two main strands to camouflage: 1. prevention of detec
by hackbinary 11y ago
No, these are all degrees of the same thing, concealment. That is the point of camouflage. There are two main strands to camouflage:
1. prevention of detection (crypsis),
2. look like something else (mimicry).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_camouflage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_camouflage
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/camouflage https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/camouflage
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dazzle_camouflage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dazzle_camouflage
- function_seven 11y agoOye. Ok, so the parent comment was this: > Dazzle wasn't intended to hide the ship but rather make it difficult to ascertain it's class, speed and heading. Here I am rephrasing it to fit your terms: > Dazzle wasn't intended to [prevent detection of] the ship but rather make it [look like something else]. But for some reason you chose instead to read that as a contradictory statement?