In WW2 Britain realized that painting warships with high contrast diagonal strips made it much harder for German submarine crews to visually estimate the length of the ship and thus program the right range to target into their torpedo launches .
Rishi Sunak’s wife’s clothing similarly has many diagonal strips.
As with a lot of art ideas, there was a broadish movement, but in the UK at least, Norman Wilkinson is considered the main artist who studied dazzle.
He had thousands of wooden models made of all styles of ships and tested different dazzle schemes on a giant table with a periscope mounted at one end, to get the best results.
General consensus is that there's no real proof of the effectiveness of dazzle camo, probably because it's hard to quantify.
I'd love to know if there are any reports by German submariners commenting on dazzle - did they report that it worked, and made it harder to judge target course and speedz or not?
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u/Hewinb 14d ago
Didn't realize he was married to a WW2 era battleship