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Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is
merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it
possible for the reader to discern what, without
this book, he would perhaps never have seen in
himself.
~ Marcel Proust
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1918
Norman Wilkinson, British Royal Navy,
Dazzle Camouflage
Sir Norman Wilkinson CBE aka Norman L. Wilkinson
(November 24, 1878/May 31, 1971) was a British
artist who usually worked in oils, watercolors and
drypoint. He was primarily a marine painter, but
he was also an illustrator, poster artist, and
wartime camoufleur. During World War I,
Wilkinson was the first to propose the use of
disruptive coloration in naval camouflage, for
which he coined the well-known term "dazzle
painting" or dazzle camouflage.
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1918
Norman Wilkinson, British Royal Navy,
Dazzle Camouflage
At first glance Dazzle seems unlikely camouflage,
drawing attention to the ship rather than hiding it,
but this technique was developed after the Allied
Navies were unable to develop effective means to
disguise ships in all weathers.
Dazzle did not conceal the ship but made it
difficult for the enemy to estimate its type, size,
speed and heading. The idea was to disrupt the
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visual rangefinders used for naval artillery. Its
purpose was confusion rather than concealment.
An observer would find it difficult to know exactly
whether the stern or the bow is in view; and it
would be equally difficult to estimate whether the
observed vessel is moving towards or away from
the observer's position.
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Vouliagmeni, Greece, 1966
F.C. Gundlach, Brigitte Bauer
Modeling an Op-Art Bathing Suit
by Sinz