The study, published last week by Aston University researchers in the journal i-Perception, recreated one of the few solid ...

Dazzle camouflage used by navy in WWI had surprisingly little impact, study suggests - Separate ‘horizon effect’ played much ...

Turns out, dazzle camouflage wasn’t the main reason enemy subs were misled in World War I, it was a natural visual illusion ...

During World War I, the Atlantic was in chaos. German U-boats prowled the seas, looking for Allied ships to destroy. To counter this threat, Britain turned to an unlikely tool: art. Bold, irregular ...

A reanalysis of a 1919 study suggests that a separate illusion, the "horizon effect," played a bigger role in warping visual ...

And so no single pattern of camouflage could hide these ships from a U-Boat’s periscope. Wilkinson’s idea looked more like something from a cubist painting. Sweeping lines, large geometric ...

A new analysis of 105-year-old data on the effectiveness of 'dazzle' camouflage on battleships in World War I has found that while dazzle had some effect, the 'horizon effect' had far more influence ...

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 ...