{"id":208998,"date":"2025-03-18T04:18:42","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T09:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/study-reveals-the-illusion-of-dazzle-paint-on-world-war-i-battleships"},"modified":"2025-03-18T04:18:42","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T09:18:42","slug":"study-reveals-the-illusion-of-dazzle-paint-on-world-war-i-battleships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/study-reveals-the-illusion-of-dazzle-paint-on-world-war-i-battleships","title":{"rendered":"Study reveals the illusion of \u2018dazzle\u2019 paint on World War I battleships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/study-reveals-the-illusion-of-dazzle-paint-on-world-war-i-battleships2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new analysis of 105-year-old data on the effectiveness of \u201cdazzle\u201d camouflage on battleships in World War I by Aston University researchers Professor Tim Meese and Dr. Samantha Strong has found that while dazzle had some effect, the \u201chorizon effect\u201d had far more influence when it came to confusing the enemy.<\/p>\n<p>The findings are <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/10.1177\/20416695241312316\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal i-Perception.<\/p>\n<p>During World War I, navies experimented with painting ships with dazzle <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/camouflage\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">camouflage <\/a>\u2014geometric shapes and stripes\u2014in an attempt to confuse U-boat captains as to the speed and direction of travel of the ships and make them harder to attack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new analysis of 105-year-old data on the effectiveness of \u201cdazzle\u201d camouflage on battleships in World War I by Aston University researchers Professor Tim Meese and Dr. Samantha Strong has found that while dazzle had some effect, the \u201chorizon effect\u201d had far more influence when it came to confusing the enemy. The findings are published [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}