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- From: carlos@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Miguel Borges)
- Subject: Re: zebras - why are they striped?
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- Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
- References: <1993Jan2.082223.29317@panix.com> <C08ow4.3zA@ulowell.ulowell.edu>
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 22:15:36 GMT
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- mbrousse@cs.ulowell.edu (Marc Brousseau) writes:
- >>Anyway, one of the things they demonstrated was the use of the
- >>"Razzle-Dazzle" painting schemes used by ships at teh end of the Great War
- >>(also known as WW 1). To the vast amazement of eveyone involved (except
- >>the proponenets of the scheme), painting ships with large more or less
- >>randomized splotches of black and white actually made them HARDER to locate.
- >> ^^^^^^
- >Not quite. It made it harder for the submarine captain, observing through
- >a periscope, to estimate the range to the target, and then applying
- >the proper lead for the torpedoes.
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- And it screwed the intelligence gatherers. I've seen pictures of early
- Japanese aircraft carriers painted to look like cruisers, and battleships
- painted to look like destroyers from the air.
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