A Visual Illusion Fooled Everyone – Even the Camouflage Experts

Turns out, dazzle camouflage wasn’t the main reason enemy subs were misled in World War I, it was a natural visual illusion called the “horizon effect.” Aston University scientists revisited a century-old experiment and uncovered that perception, not paint, played the biggest role in the confusion. During World War I, ships were painted with geometric […] Read More

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