We've blogged about Howard V. Brown before, in part because he created an especially wonderful cover for Scientific American (March 1919) that shows a camouflage artist assessing the effectiveness of a ship model, painted in a dazzle camouflage scheme. Of additional interest is that Brown was a student of New York ship camouflage designer William Andrew Mackay, in the development of camouflage for the US Shipping Board, so he was well acquainted with testing devices like the one shown on that cover.
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Dazzle Camouflage: What is it and how did it work? / Nature, Art, and Camouflage / Art, Women's Rights, and Camouflage / Embedded Figures, Art, and Camouflage / Art, Gestalt, and Camouflage / Optical science meets visual art / Disruption versus dazzle / Chicanery and conspicuousness / Under the big top at Sims' circus
