I quite like the look of the Red Bull F1 car’s testing design – they call it “bar code” or “camouflage”
I’m looking for a vector pattern to try to replicate it for something else but struggling to find similar – it may of course be that there’s nothing out there but you know it’s the internet – it’s got everything! 😉
Any suggestions of what you’d call it (or where I might find it)?
At a range of several miles, the big stripy thing doesn’t look like a big stripy thing, which is the point of the disruptive or ‘dazzle’ camo.
All camo is disruptive pattern, colour breaks up the human outline and blends it into the background scenery.
Zebra blur into a dusty brown colour at a distance, blending them into the savannah, and the dazzle skin used on car prototypes makes it almost impossible for journo’s to sus out new design features like amended aerodynamic wings and panels.
Trying to judge the range of something painted like this optically is very difficult:
Once radar gets fitted to ships it becomes redundant; ‘right, fire at that bloody great thing like a block of flats coming over the horizon!’
We use it on our cars at work, Jaguar Landrover . It very hard to photoshop off a panel / surface too 😉 and hides ll the “form” below it. And in reflective form its AMAZING when a pic is taken with a flash !!! 😉
The “dazzle” cameo from the ships was actually to prevent a U boat captain / attacker from being able to make out what bit is the front of the bow, what is the side, a gun etc…. As the pic above shows it does work.
…. It might also look good on fat bike rims, and the top of Urge Enduromatic Helmets ! Lol
Yeah, sorry, I was being a bit flippant. Obviously targeting wouldn’t have been from the photo’s point of view. It’s very clever and even with knowing there’s one ship, it’s still hard to work out if there’s more or not.
It was actually aim at where the stripy thing is going not where it is – you had to send your torpedo or artillery or whatever on a trajectory to arrive at the same time and place as where the ship was travelling to – ,the job of the camouflage was to upset efforts at range finding as it was difficult to gauge if the ship was moving parallel, towards or away from you .
JEngledow – Member
We use it on our cars at work, Jaguar Landrover
You use it a lot too, I see bloody hundreds* of black and white jags and Landrovers on my commute to Warwick!!
Me too. Some of them seemingly wrapped in bin liners. Saw a massive range rover towing a trailer about Warwick the other day wrapped up in bin liners.
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