which involved painting ships in various patterns to confuse enemy submariners about their target's direction and speed. The humbug damselfish is one of the creatures that uses motion dazzle as a ...

This 'dazzle' strategy protected ships at sea, and gave artists a chance for their avant-garde visual language to serve a 'practical, useful purpose within the war'. In War Art with Eddie Redmayne ...

This story appears in the July 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine. If a zebra zigs, will its stripes make a predator zag? That’s the idea behind motion dazzle, a century-old hypothesis ...

It became known as dazzle camouflage. So how did Wilkinson use art to fight the war at sea? In 1917, on a patrol ship in the dangerous waters around Britain, the artist and illustrator Norman ...