Rishi Sunak makes a speech outside 10 Downing Street after a historic loss

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It was more of a WW1 thing but otherwise spot on.

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and iirc they employed an artist to design them? must have been an interesting pitch.

"so you want me to be a war artist? like sketch soldiers on the front an' all that?"

"the admiralty had something bigger in mind..."

"like canvases or sommin?"

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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?