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>>6765423

This reminds me a lot of the "dazzle" camo I was talking about on the mumble server a few days ago.

For those who weren't there, it was an interesting way of using a paint scheme to help avoid submarine attacks that they used in WWI. It wasn't really made to "hide" since a ship at sea is pretty damn obvious to visually pick out. (derp, what's the only thing sticking up out of the water as far as the eye can see?)

Instead, they painted it with a bunch of false edges and high-contrast "shapes" so that when looking through a periscope, it would be hard to determine what part of the ship and the angle you were viewing it from. Since the angle of attack was very important for guiding a torpedo, mistaking a ship to be on a different heading than it actually is = huge error in torpedo launch and a high probability of it hitting nothing.

I've also heard that it was designed to make it hard to use targeting "hash marks" on a periscope that were used to determine distance to target as well.

After a while, targeting systems got advanced enough to pretty much negate the advantage of using this, and it was abandoned. Still looks cool as hell, though.

Pic related, 2 examples of dazzle ship camo.