The article glosses over the interesting rationale behind the dazzle camouflage on ships. It's not intended, as the article suggests, to make ships at sea harde

The article glosses over the interesting rationale behind the dazzle camouflage on ships. It's not intended, as the article suggests, to make ships at sea harder to see. That's not really possible since they make a distinct bump on a flat horizon, but the wild paint jobs make it harder for sailors looking through binoculars or scopes to make out the type of ship, its size, or its true heading by breaking up the lines. There isn't that much evidence that dazzle camouflage worked all that well, but there'e an interesting hypothesis that cubism, an art movement that was ascendant in the early 20th century, was an influence on the technique. And it looks like dazzle camouflage feel out of favor at the same time cubism did. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dazzle_camouflage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dazzle_camouflage There's a great 99% invisible podcast on the topic: http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/episode-65-razzle-dazzle/ http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/episode-65-razzle-dazz...