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Trompe L'oeil

2024/10/15
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David Weinberg
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Roy Behrens
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Tom Vanderbilt
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Roy Behrens: 本段落主要介绍了迷彩的两种类型:高相似性迷彩和破坏性迷彩,并以第一次世界大战期间使用的炫目迷彩为例,详细阐述了破坏性迷彩的原理和应用。炫目迷彩并非旨在隐形,而是通过使船只的速度和方向难以判断来干扰鱼雷的瞄准。其大胆的色彩和图案设计也使其成为公众关注的焦点。尽管战争环境变化了,但炫目迷彩的原理仍在现代军事中得到应用。 Tom Vanderbilt: 本段落主要探讨了高速公路设计中利用视觉错觉来影响驾驶员感知车速的现象。高速公路上的车道分隔线比人们普遍认为的要长得多,这是为了在高速行驶时给人以速度较慢的错觉。此外,他还介绍了“宽容之路”的设计理念及其负面影响,指出这种设计理念在应用于城市和郊区道路时会导致安全问题。 David Weinberg: 本段落讲述了艺术家Richard Ancrum在洛杉矶高速公路上安装伪造路标的故事,这是一个“游击式公共服务”行为。Ancrum 精心制作的路标与周围环境完美融合,并在一段时间内未被发现。这一行为引发了关于公共服务、艺术与法律之间的讨论。此外,他还介绍了纽约地铁站出现的类似行为,并指出这种行为并非总是被公众接受。

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This chapter explores the history and mechanics of dazzle camouflage, a form of disruptive camouflage used during World War I to confuse enemy U-boats about the speed and direction of ships.
  • Dazzle camouflage was designed to make it difficult for U-boat operators to determine a ship's speed and direction.
  • Artists contributed to the design of these patterns, making the ships look like 'a flock of sea-going Easter eggs'.
  • The effectiveness of dazzle camouflage was tested using toy models and experienced submarine captains.

Shownotes Transcript

Today, we have three stories about designs meant to fool you. Camouflage meant to fool U-boats. Highways designed to fool your brain into going way faster than it should want to. And impeccably made fake signs meant to guide you to the right freeway. Three classic, favorite 99PI's completely updated, remixed, and rescored.

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