Visual Illusions: Their Causes, Characteristics and ApplicationsLuckiesh, Matthew
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Visual Illusions: Their Causes, Characteristics and Applications
Luckiesh, Matthew
Optical illusions
In this great game of hocus-pocus many deceptions are resorted to.
Replicas of large guns and trenches are made; dummy soldiers are used to
foil the sniper and to make him reveal his location, and papier-maché
horses, trees, and other objects conceal snipers and observers and afford
listening posts. Gunners have been dressed in summer in green flowing
robes. In winter white robes have been utilized. How far away from modern
warriors are all the usual glitter and glamour of military impedimenta in
the past parades of peace time! The armies now dig in for concealment. The
artillery is no longer invisible behind yonder hill, for the eyes of the
aerial observer of the camera reveal its position unless camouflaged for
the third dimension.
In the foregoing only the highlights of a vast art have been viewed, but
the art is still vaster, for it extends into other fields. Sound must
sometimes be camouflaged and this can only be done by using the same
medium--sound. In these days of scientific warfare it is to be expected
that the positions of enemy guns would be detected by other means than
employed in the past. A notable method is the use of velocity of sound.
Records are made at various stations of the firing of a gun and the
explosion of the shell. By trigonometric laws the position of the gun is
ascertained. It is said that the Germans fired a number of guns
simultaneously with the "75-mile" gun in order to camouflage its location.
The airplane and submarine would gladly employ sound camouflage in order
to foil the sound detector if practicable solutions were proposed.
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