>>53542367It wasn't to hide the ship, but to fuck up the enemy's aim over long distances. When you're trying to go for a moving ship that you can barely see on the horizon, all the crazy changing black-and-white stripes fucked up the percieved outline of the ship and made it hard to effectively tell exactly which way it's going and how fast (or even the size/distance of the ship), so the idea was it'd make the enemies incorrectly judge the ship's future position and fuck up their attacks as a result.
It didn't see use for very long because it only had limited adoption to begin with and new technologies made it obsolete, data on its effectiveness was spotty but seemed to find that it helped a little bit with getting hit less but also made the ships more visible to begin with, it's really more an interesting historical footnote than anything else
