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WWI's 'Dazzle' Camouflage Seemed Effective Due to Unexpected Optical Trick
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.
© Arthur Lismer, Public domain, via Wikimedia CommonsMore than a century later, however, researchers Timothy Meese and Samantha Strong expressed significant concerns about Blodgett’s methods. If dazzle camouflage were single-handedly responsible for the visual deception noted in Blodgett’s study, viewers should have consistently seen the front of the ship, called the bow, “twist” away from the direction of travel, according to the researchers. However, “the remarkable finding here is that these same two effects, in similar proportions, are clearly evident in participants [from the 1919 study] familiar with the art of camouflage deception, including a lieutenant in a European navy,” Meese explained.
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