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| Hypothetical dazzle schemes |
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Northrup Fry, Fearful Symmetry: A Study of William Blake. University of Toronto Press, 2004—
[In addition to camouflage] Another form of puzzle is provided by the painter who uses darkness as a positive basis and light as a sporadic scattering of it. The Dutch pictures with a candle in the center and the rest of the picture shading off to blackness at the edges are typical of this, and even Rembrandt and Vermeer do the same thing in subtler ways.
