Dazzle camouflage - some really cool photos.

[zupermann]

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Zebras are merely horses who have escaped from horse jail

 

[Juster]

Hmm...someone should've commissioned Picasso or Salvador Dali to paint a ship--that REALLY would've confused any aggressor

Picasso exclaimed on seeing a camouflaged canon in Paris: "It was us who created that." While in conversation with Jean Cocteau, he said: "If they want to make an army invisible at a distance, they only have to dress their men as harlequins."

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/02/style/02iht-fcamo.1.5109218.html

 

[Claven2]

According to the IWM, dazzle attracted the notice of artists such as Picasso, who claimed that Cubists like himself had invented it. In reality, although Picasso started with cubism in 1909, Norman Wilkinson developped the dazzle pattern independently from Picasso through the influence of zoologist John Graham Kerr, it was based upon animal disruptive camouflage patterns.

 

[highlander]

While that particular camouflage scheme is well named, from looking at those ship's pictures, the location of the bridge and the angle of the smoke stacks should give a pretty good idea of the size of the ship and the direction it's sailing.

Probably why this pattern was discontinued.

 

[Eaglelord17]

While that particular camouflage scheme is well named, from looking at those ship's pictures, the location of the bridge and the angle of the smoke stacks should give a pretty good idea of the size of the ship and the direction it's sailing.

Probably why this pattern was discontinued.

I would argue it was more likely discontinued due to advances in technology more than anything else. Once Radar and Sonar came into existence your no longer bound by what you can see with your own eye.

 

[Claven2]

While that particular camouflage scheme is well named, from looking at those ship's pictures, the location of the bridge and the angle of the smoke stacks should give a pretty good idea of the size of the ship and the direction it's sailing.

Probably why this pattern was discontinued.

If you have ever looked through an optical periscope at sea, you would immediately see why this cammo was used.

Today we have digital imaging, sonar, radar, thermals and infrared. In WW2 and earlier, u-boat skippers only had the unmagnified human eye looking at ship that were often miles away.