Military camouflage Military camouflage Active camouflage (or adaptive camouflage) is a group of camouflage technologies which would allow an object (usually military in nature) to blend into its surroundings by use of panels or coatings capable of changing color or luminosity. Active camouflage can be seen as having the potential to become the perfection of the art of camouflaging things from visual detection. ...more on Wikipedia about "Active camouflage"
Camouflage is the method which allows an otherwise visible organism or object to remain indiscernible from the surrounding environment. Examples include a tiger's stripes and the battledress of a modern soldier. Camouflage is a form of deception. The word camouflage comes from the French word 'camoufler' meaning 'to disguise'. ...more on Wikipedia about "Camouflage"
Chocolate-chip camouflage (sometimes called cookie dough camouflage) was the camouflage used by the United States Army during the Gulf War in the early 1990s. It is also known as Six-Color Desert Camouflage. The camouflage is so named because it resembles chocolate-chip cookie dough: in an attempt to better the camouflage, small designs resembling rocks were added to it. ...more on Wikipedia about "Chocolate-chip camouflage"
Dazzle camouflage, also known as Razzle Dazzle or Dazzle painting, was a camouflage paint scheme used on ships, mainly during World War I. It consisted of a complex pattern of geometric shapes in contrasting colours, interrupting and intersecting each other. At first glance it seems like an unlikely form of camouflage, drawing attention to the ship rather than hiding it. Dazzle camouflage had a very specific purpose, however, which was to make it difficult to estimate the target ship's speed and heading and so disrupt the performance of the visual rangefinders used for naval artillery at the time. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dazzle camouflage"
Snipers and hunters with extreme requirements for camouflage use a ghillie, or yowie suit. The ghillie suit was originally developed by Scottish gamekeepers as a portable hunting blind. The name derives from ghillie, a Scots word for servant, applied to the ghillie dhu, a type of brownie which is supposed to disguise itself in leaves and vegetation. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ghillie suit"
Optical camouflage is a kind of active camouflage in which one wears a fabric which has an image of the scene directly behind the wearer projected onto it, so that the wearer appears invisible. The concept exists for now only in theory and in proof-of-concept prototypes, although many experts consider it technically feasible. It is an example of active camouflage (or adaptive camouflage). A working example has been created by the University of Tokyo in Japan. ...more on Wikipedia about "Optical camouflage"
Tigerstripe is the name of a group of camouflage patterns developed for close-range use in dense jungle environments ( jungle warfare). It features small stripes of varying shades of green and brown, and large areas of black. It is from these black areas, which resemble the black stripes on a tiger, that the pattern got its name. ...more on Wikipedia about "Tigerstripe"
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