It always made sense to me. This study seems to reinforce their advice.
Interesting how universal these tricks seem to be.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_CF-18_Hornet...
Dazzle fundamentally failed at this task because the primary opponent, Imperial Germany, did not use coincidence rangefinders. Instead, they used stereoscopic rangefinders, against which Dazzle had little effect. (Incidentally, the Germans also went to war with a naval camouflage paint scheme that was best designed to defeat their own instruments, and was notably less effective against the Royal Navy.)
> the Soviets used their own diesel engine tanks to train the dogs rather than German tanks which had gasoline engines.[5] As the dogs relied on their acute sense of smell, the dogs sought out familiar Soviet tanks instead of strange-smelling German tanks
Cost billions; more than the Manhattan project. Obsolete soon after deployment due to ICBMs.
(Taking your "war time" to include cold war time)
They really need a second study that paints big gnarly WW2 fighter teeth on cows to see what effect it has.
sadly not genuine dazzle camo but in the ballpark
https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/9179/does-weari...
EDIT: Yeap, here's NYT article from 1989 https://www.nytimes.com/1989/09/05/science/face-masks-fool-t...
The outcome of Calvin's "experiment"
Later I saw kids waiting for the school bus with ice cream boxes on their head with two dots drawn on the back. Definitely not a fashion thing.
The locals got I good laugh from me getting pecked because they all know the tricks after the first warning swoop.
There is also a third very similar white dot on the tip of the tail which is very much more dynamic that the two fixed points on the ears. By moving the tail relative to the ears I would swear the ones in front could at least communicate their own intents to the ones behind them if not issue perfectly silent directives
"He spent 33 years living with the brown bears (Ursus arctos) native to the Kamchatka peninsula (...) For over 20 years, Nikolayenko followed an enormous male he named Dobrynya, forming such an easy bond that the bear would often curl up to sleep just a few feet from him."
Eventually he died of a bear mauling.
Moral of the story: it works until it doesn't.
Wow, same year and two months later than Timothy Treadwell, "Grizzly Man".
Some sunglasses (probably not all) kinda look like 2 dark circles with a gap between. If you can make the cat second guess it sometimes is all it takes to make it look for other game. They really don't like to eat us anyways from what I hear.
Worked as far as I could tell.