Not so much hide the ship as make it extremely difficult to spit direction of travel and range-find. Skills very much required to place feet on stair-treads.
It also probably didn't work. The Allies were assuming that the Germans were using the same rangefinders we were in WWI. The Germans were using a more advanced rangefinder that doesn't have any problems with "Razzle Dazzle" camo.
The rangefinders on surface warships were different indeed (Germany used stereoscopic instruments, while the Allies preferred the coincidence type), but the other purpose of confusing a submarine, which can't have such fancy rangefinding equipment due to the limitations of having to look through a periscope, which can't incorporate coincidence nor stereoscopic rangefinders due to its small size, did work somewhat better. However, at the short distances involved in WW1 submarine warfare, it is debatable whether the inaccuracies induced by the dazzle camouflage were large enough to ensure a miss with anything but exceptionally fast ships.
It also probably didn't work as well as the Allies in WWI thought it did. It worked pretty well against our rangefinders at the time, that only used one point of reference, but the Germans were using sterioscopic rangefinders that this particular paint scheme doesn't seem to work on.
Not only that, the broken lines can also make it somewhat difficult to get an accurate range using an (optical) coincidence rangefinder (where you have to align two half images to determine the range to an object) as commonly used on many warships for aiming the guns back then.
This is exactly what they used to do to boats to camouflage them.
Came into the comment section looking for a dazzle camo reference and was not disappointed.
Not so much hide the ship as make it extremely difficult to spit direction of travel and range-find. Skills very much required to place feet on stair-treads.
Wait, how is this camouflage? I can clearly still see the ship.
Dazzle Camo isn't to hide the ship, per say. It's to make it much harder to tell which way the ship is facing, and therefore what its heading is.
I see, thanks for the clarification.
It also probably didn't work. The Allies were assuming that the Germans were using the same rangefinders we were in WWI. The Germans were using a more advanced rangefinder that doesn't have any problems with "Razzle Dazzle" camo.
https://youtu.be/Kw7vq_YD6JM
The rangefinders on surface warships were different indeed (Germany used stereoscopic instruments, while the Allies preferred the coincidence type), but the other purpose of confusing a submarine, which can't have such fancy rangefinding equipment due to the limitations of having to look through a periscope, which can't incorporate coincidence nor stereoscopic rangefinders due to its small size, did work somewhat better. However, at the short distances involved in WW1 submarine warfare, it is debatable whether the inaccuracies induced by the dazzle camouflage were large enough to ensure a miss with anything but exceptionally fast ships.
If you're still interested you should go read the wiki. Fun little rabbit hole to jump down.
It also probably didn't work as well as the Allies in WWI thought it did. It worked pretty well against our rangefinders at the time, that only used one point of reference, but the Germans were using sterioscopic rangefinders that this particular paint scheme doesn't seem to work on.
https://youtu.be/Kw7vq_YD6JM
Not only that, the broken lines can also make it somewhat difficult to get an accurate range using an (optical) coincidence rangefinder (where you have to align two half images to determine the range to an object) as commonly used on many warships for aiming the guns back then.
Are they selling/making medical supplies in that building?
Now that's what I call flying carpet
Safest people here are blind
I too, have watched the all time classic movie Slaxx
Those U-boats will never be able to determine the bearing of that stairwell.
I sure can’t.