{"id":45602,"date":"2014-09-30T15:56:40","date_gmt":"2014-09-30T21:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/30\/why-camouflage-appeared-in-world-war-i.html"},"modified":"2014-10-13T14:47:16","modified_gmt":"2014-10-13T20:47:16","slug":"why-camouflage-appeared-in-world-war-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/30\/why-camouflage-appeared-in-world-war-i.html","title":{"rendered":"Why camouflage appeared in World War I"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cool article about a tech breakthrough that suddenly made camouflage necessary.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, I&#39;ve always loved dazzle painting on warships, but never understood why they did it. Now I know.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/why-no-one-used-camouflage-until-wwi-1640792670?rev=1412094775967&#038;utm_campaign=socialflow_gizmodo_twitter&#038;utm_source=gizmodo_twitter&#038;utm_medium=socialflow'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/L5BZS1-R4-tIZIhJ8g3UE388YaiPdyuQ_cysGMSrtAPxeTMdv_WOyDetHMsqa6feVE-Jnq81uD5u75ZnUKLUFI4sRajNrsW-YYkOEUmw2iPSE1ETR2N9qyeu5sNUum6RoIdtDgSEiA=w506-h303' border='0' \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/why-no-one-used-camouflage-until-wwi-1640792670?rev=1412094775967&#038;utm_campaign=socialflow_gizmodo_twitter&#038;utm_source=gizmodo_twitter&#038;utm_medium=socialflow'>Why No One Used Camouflage Until WWI<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nThe general idea behind visual camouflage, which is to make distinctive, recognizable shapes difficult to pick out against a background, was nothing new in 1914. The point of camouflage isn&#8217;t necessarily to make oneself totally invisible, which isn&#8217;t practical for a large army.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/UfuVZfWwe2R'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cool article about a tech breakthrough that suddenly made camouflage necessary. By the way, I&#39;ve always loved dazzle painting on warships, but never understood why they did it. Now I know. Why No One Used Camouflage Until WWI The general idea behind visual camouflage, which is to make distinctive, recognizable shapes difficult to pick out &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/30\/why-camouflage-appeared-in-world-war-i.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why camouflage appeared in World War I&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-history"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5974,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/06\/14\/uniforms.html","url_meta":{"origin":45602,"position":0},"title":"Uniforms","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 14-Jun-04 8:03pm","format":false,"excerpt":"New uniforms for the army, eh? 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