Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons, No restrictions, via Wikimedia Commons During World War I, navies painted their ships in “dazzle” camouflage, also known as “razzle dazzle.” ...

Historians lovingly called it "razzle dazzle." The idea was not to hide the ship in plain sight. Instead, it relied on painting complex patterns on the ship's exterior so that the enemy has a hard ...

This kind of pattern was called Dazzle Camouflage, though historians prefer to call it "Razzle Dazzle," and when ... Instead of painting the Argus with black and white lines, as the images suggest ...