During World War I, U-boats were one of Germany’s most effective weapons. They snuck up underwater on British ships and ...

A reanalysis of a 1919 study suggests that a separate illusion, the "horizon effect," played a bigger role in warping visual perception than dazzle paint. Reading time 3 minutes During World War I, ...

The effectiveness of the iconic dazzle camouflage used on British Royal Navy ships during the First World War could be “substantially overestimated”, according to a new study. Instead, the research, ...

Tauba Auerbach will follow Tobias Rehberger, Peter Blake, and Carlos Cruz-Diez by transforming a fireboat in the avant-garde style devised during World War I. Carlos Cruz Diez, Induction Chromatique à ...

Madisonville resident Carol Olsen has spent her life studying various aspects of marine life, including earning a master’s degree in marine archaeology and pursuing a passion for ship decoration. Yet, ...

Two war ship will be adorned with artist-designed dazzle paintings to celebrate the centenary of the First World War. These bright geometric patterns, also known as “dazzle camouflage,” were initially ...

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To create her dazzle camouflage design, Auerbach used a process known as marbling, or swirling pools of ink on paper to generate fluid patterns Nicholas Knight / Courtesy of the Public Art Fund This ...

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A Ukrainian Small Armored Artillery Boat painted with what appears to be dazzle camouflage.Ukrainian Navy Ukraine's navy released images of vessels with what is likely a dazzle-camouflage paint job.

Ukraine's navy released images of vessels with what is likely a dazzle-camouflage paint job. It stems from a WWI-era tactic to make it harder for the enemy to gauge a ship's speed and direction. A ...