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The effectiveness of the iconic dazzle camouflage used on British Royal Navy ships during the First World War could be ...

The study, published last week by Aston University researchers in the journal i-Perception, recreated one of the few solid ...

A reanalysis of a 1919 study suggests that a separate illusion, the "horizon effect," played a bigger role in warping visual ...

The original research, conducted in 1919 by Leo Blodgett, an MIT student, claimed that dazzle camouflage could mislead ...

The findings are published in the journal i-Perception. During World War I, navies experimented with painting ships with dazzle camouflage—geometric shapes and stripes—in an attempt to confuse U-boat ...

Geometric ‘dazzle’ camouflage was used on ships in WWI to confuse enemy onlookers as to the direction and speed of the ship Timothy Meese and Samantha Strong reanalysed historic data from 1919 ...

More information: Timothy Simon Meese et al, Blodgett's (1919) "Ship camouflage" 105 years on: A misperception of dazzle perception revealed and redressed, i-Perception (2025). DOI: 10.1177 ...

Blodgett's (1919) “Ship camouflage” 105 years on: A misperception of dazzle perception revealed and redressed. i-Perception , 2025; 16 (2) DOI: 10.1177/20416695241312316 Cite This Page : ...