One of those downed boats, a British hospital vessel called ... HMT Olympic in dazzle camouflage after service as a troopship during World War I, 1919. Credit: Pictures from History/Universal ...

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dazzle camouflage used stark geometric patterns to try to confuse German U-boat captains’ perception of a ship’s direction and speed, making it harder to target. But did the dazzle actually ...

or white to confuse German U-boat captains as to the vessels’ speed and direction of travel. A 1919 study by MIT naval architecture student Leo Blodgett suggested that dazzle camouflage worked ...

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 of travel ...

Dazzle camouflage was born of desperation ... the attacker as to her size and course,” Wilkinson wrote in 1917. U-boat ...

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 of ...