This is 99% invisible. I'm Roman Mars.

Today we have three stories about designs meant to fool you.

Camouflage meant to fool you,

meant to fool you 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 Behrons.

I'm Roy Behrons and I teach in the Department of Art at the University of Northern

Iowa.

I teach graphic design and the history of design.

Barens 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 dis-disgird-disruption

because it breaks up the figure.

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