A passenger ship in ... But did the dazzle actually dazzle, or did it simply look ridiculous? Aston University researchers have investigated the efficacy of dazzle camouflage on WWI battleships ...

This kind of pattern was called Dazzle Camouflage, though historians prefer to call it "Razzle Dazzle," and ... stark and unusual for American ships. While many WWI vessels featured Dazzle ...

Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. During World War I, Allied navies started implementing shocking, cubist-inspired “dazzle” paint jobs on ships. The now-iconic ...

The effectiveness of the iconic dazzle camouflage ... on dazzle ships conducted over a century later using computer displays online,” scientists wrote. Woodrow Wilson & WWI: The American ...

Thousands of merchant ships and hundreds of naval vessels were “dazzled” by the end of WWI. Dazzle camouflage was resurrected ...

Historians lovingly called it "razzle dazzle." The idea was not to hide the ship in plain sight. Instead, it relied on painting complex patterns on the ship's exterior so that the enemy has a hard ...

Olympic became a troop ship during WW1 and was repainted in dazzle. She shows some of the techniques used by dazzle designers. Bold shapes at the bow and stern break up the form of the vessel.