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 ...

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.

The effectiveness of the iconic dazzle camouflage used on British Royal Navy ships during the First World War could be “substantially overestimated”, according to a new study. Instead ...

German U-boats prowled the seas, looking for Allied ships to destroy. To counter this threat, Britain turned to an unlikely tool: art. Bold, irregular geometric patterns — known as dazzle ...

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 ...