Dazzle camouflage was fantastically weird.

I can't get the vid to load but I'm familiar with that naval camouflage. It totally worked. There's always dense layers of water vapor on the sea surface & light diffuses through it creating a mirage effect. For whatever reason, those horizontal lines made ships blend in better.

Of course it's utterly useless in the modern age with satellites & drones & radar etc.

The good old days of camouflage is almost over.

Men pretending to be women is a kind of camouflage. New era.

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I love it!

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COOL

We still use "dazzlers" but they are optic dazzlers... ecm and all that, but a name sake nonetheless.

LOL.. true, it is warfare after all..

Really you had to go there
Isn't there enough of that on GLP now
This thread is about ships at sea.

Dazzle ships? All military ships I see are light grey. All cruise ships are white, and tankers seem to be a dark red or any solid color. So it's a nice video but I have never seen a dazzle ship. I guess because dazzle paint was hard to keep up it was only used at certain times, briefly, during WW1 and WW2.

The purpose of dazzle camo was to disrupt people doing rangefinding using split screen stereoscopic rangefinders (so that they could launch torpedoes) -- with these you twist a knob on the rangefinder until the two sides of the screen line up -- but with all the high contrast lines (and lots of motion, etc), it was difficult to get an accurate reading, and hence it was likely that a given torpedo would miss the target (note, this isn't so much about range, as about velocity estimation; the target motion was measured as fraction of a degree per second, and with range that can be used to calculate actual speed)

Post WWII there wasn't any need, as rangefinding began to be done in different ways and torpedoes became smarter.

There isn't much actual benefit in terms of the visibility of the object with dazzle camo.

I would like to find a painting of a dazzle vessel from that period.

sorry. Ship camouflage was art in WWI.

Art? Picasso was 33 years old when WWI broke out. Cubism art movement was in 1910, pioneered by Picasso (and Georges Braque, joined by Jean Metzinger, Albert Gleizes, Robert Delaunay, Henri Le Fauconnier, and Fernand Leger).

Not just crazy paintings! There was math and color, reflection and colors that mattered. Of course the artist's message was interesting as well.

My father was an artist for the US Army.

Lovely

Amazing thread... I wouldn't have even known about this.

Right. There are so many forms of warfare, not just the battlefield.

The old days, they painted boats manually.

Saw a youtube video of a tank, one side covered with bright spotlights:

I thought it was ridiculous until they pulled it up on top of a ridgeline as the sunset. Turned on the bright lights and it "disaapeared" (blended in) against the bright sky..

Early in the war the RAF painted Spitfires pink.

Try Cranston Fine Arts. It has many artists, naval and aviation.

Weird you would post this, OP, as I was just looking at pics of those ships a couple of weeks ago. I think I was looking up optical illusions when I ran across them. Very cool.

It does and I see what you did there.

They use this dazzle paint effect on skyships!

Yeah, it's much more difficult to get trollpedoed in dazzle text. They can't even tell your trajectory bro.

I've only ever seen these in black and white photos, but in my mind they look like giant floating fruit stripe gum.

razzle dazzle never existed , and in reality would have been

even MORE USELESS back then , and highlighted the target

as most large combat ship in the 1910 era were between 300 and 500 feet in length, all an attacker had to do was ASSUME any 'razzle dazzle target was 400 feet in length - which instead of being blended in by waves and hazy sky - were highlighted by the supposed zig zag

distance determined by 400 feet length as relates to tangent angle

1 degree = 60 x distance
2 degrees 30
3 degrees 20 etc

razzle dazzle would make sitting ducks

absurd

never ever happened

hey JADR , always enjoy your work - how about some more mandela effects ??

cheers

I use dazzle camouflage to walk the streets unimpeded.