WW1 experimental camouflage sniper's suit using the concept of "dazzle." Dazzle camouflage, also known as razzle dazzle (in the U.S.) or dazzle painting, was a family of ship camouflage used extensively in World War I.
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I thought the idea of dazzle was to obscure your direction and shape for targeting torpedos and large guns with a long flight time. It seems like it'd be less than useless where you don't need to account for the motion of the target like on a person.
It works well for zebras, who travel in herds. Their stripe pattern, similar to dazzle, makes it difficult to differentiate individuals from the group and isolate a single one. For an army in marching formation, or otherwise on the move in a group, it could serve to make it difficult to tell exactly how many soldiers are in your group. But it isn't going to work as classic "camo", of course, nobody is going to not see you.
A herd of snipers does sound kind of worrying to be honest.
Zebras have the advantage of having colorblind predators. It may dazzle you, but to a lion, Zebras are grass colored and grass patterned.
There is a rare genetic mutation that creates a zebra without stripes. It’s rare because they don’t often survive. When the lion attacks the herd, the zebras all scatter and run everywhere, in different directions. Because of their camouflage, the lion cannot tell one zebra from another, therefore cannot focus on a single target, and eventually becomes tired out.
With the stripeless zebra, the lion can focus on one individual. This is easier for the lion to hunt.
One of those stripeless zebras was Albert Einstein
Looks aren't colourblind, they can see blue and green, just not red.