Pazzle is a puzzle you can't solve, but that's OK because you're not meant to. Pazzle is a means of creating complex optical illusions using only two different business-card sized "patterns" - one printed on each side of the card. The system used is called "Dazzle" and was devised during the first world war as a way of camouflaging ships so that submarines couldn't precisely judge distance, speed, direction and even number of vessels. Targeting has since become a much more accurate skill and Dazzle isn't used anymore, but it may come back with the advent of warfare robots, robot don't like stripes and other visual input that breaks up a surface. We should credit zebras for this camouflage scheme, though, as they used it ages ago, waaay before WWI. This is the new minitaure zen garden for your executive's desk, but for people who aren't looking for the sothing calm that raking sand around miniature rocks gives, no this one is for those of you that embrace eye-challenges, mental clutter and black and whiteness. Here's to confusion. |