Brooklyn Museum Quarterly . Couitcsy of Sea Pozter A line of camouflaged mine-layers about to begin their plantinc. Courtesy of Sea Power A transport painted with a type of the highly successful lowvisibility-dazzle which reached its culmination in the magnifi-cent camouflage of the Aquitania and Leviathan. Such bands ofpaint break the waterline, and practically eliminate horizontal andvertical marks which might fit the telemeter scale of a periscope. observer would greatly over-estimate her range, and, beingfiutherniore without means of judging her speed and course,would lose hope and make no
Brooklyn Museum Quarterly . Couitcsy of Sea Pozter A line of camouflaged mine-layers about to begin their plantinc. Courtesy of Sea Power A transport painted with a type of the highly successful lowvisibility-dazzle which reached its culmination in the magnifi-cent camouflage of the Aquitania and Leviathan. Such bands ofpaint break the waterline, and practically eliminate horizontal andvertical marks which might fit the telemeter scale of a periscope. observer would greatly over-estimate her range, and, beingfiutherniore without means of judging her speed and course,would lose hope and make no effort to pursue. The dazzle systems, in the broadest sense, includedeception in all possible phases, with the object of causingan enemy observer to form incorrect judgments as to thesize, range, speed, and course of a ship. An artificial bowwave, an apparently shortened or reduced hull, distortedpei-spective, the elimination of all vertical lines and rightangles, undoubtedly multiply the difficulties of a U-boatobserver. Fearful and wonderful were some of the sug-gestions for marine camouflage submitted duri
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