Three stories about designs meant to fool you.
This is 99% invisible.
I'm Roman Mars.
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 99 PIs, completely updated, remixed and rescored.
Enjoy.
I think if you ask somebody on the street what is camouflage, I believe the most common answer would be to say, well, it's a figure and it's being hidden by being blended with its background.
Scientists today call that background matching.
I call that high similarity camouflage.
That's Roy Behrens.
I'm Roy Behrens and I teach in the department of Art at the University of Northern Iowa.
I teach graphic design and the history of design.
Behrens is also one of the foremost camouflage experts.
Well, I wouldn't go that far.
High similarity or blending is just one type of camouflage.
It's kind of the boring one.
But another type of camouflage that you can find both in nature and in military use is disruptive camouflage.
I call it figure disruption, figure disguise because it breaks up the figure.