Hey, Meow: you sounded interested in what I mentioned about dazzle painting (before your friends kidnapped you and forced you to go to the bar
), so I thought I'd give you a link: Dazzle camouflage - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The article says that it wasn't meant to hide the ship, just to make it difficult to determine its size, heading, speed, etc., but I've heard elsewhere that at least some types of dazzle paintin were intended to hide the ship at long range by breaking up the silhouette of the ship on the horizon into something unrecognizeable.
Kinda neat, I think... but I'm having trouble remembering the exact context where it came up, so I'm not sure at this point how interesting it'll be to you, but here it is just in case.