But the conceit that cell towers are 'badly disguised' is incorrect; the goal is not to successfully hide, but simply to meet the much lower bar of obscuring a non-conforming shape in the environment, so that it doesn't trigger human perceptual interest.
You don't put duplicitously palm fronds on a tower to hide it; you put them so that someone scanning the cityscape from a mile away is not distracted by the utilitarian tower.
But the conceit that cell towers are 'badly disguised' is incorrect; the goal is not to successfully hide, but simply to meet the much lower bar of obscuring a non-conforming shape in the environment, so that it doesn't trigger human perceptual interest.
You don't put duplicitously palm fronds on a tower to hide it; you put them so that someone scanning the cityscape from a mile away is not distracted by the utilitarian tower.