Dec 9, 2014
INVISIBLE - Philip Ball
Published next July in paperback, Invisible is a cultural history of invisibility, looking at how humans have attempted to develop and use invisibility and the motivations behind this urge to be unseen.
The inspiration for...

INVISIBLE - Philip Ball

Published next July in paperback, Invisible is a cultural history of invisibility, looking at how humans have attempted to develop and use invisibility and the motivations behind this urge to be unseen.

The inspiration for this cover came from two ideas: the dazzle camouflage used on ships, and the way the stripes of a zebra make their form harder to distinguish by a predator.

‘One popular theory of the zebra’s stripes is that they obscure not by concealment but by confusion. A division of the body into seemingly random patches of highly contrasting colours breaks up the outlines on the creature itself: a predator sees something but is unable to interpret it.’

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