{"id":13765,"date":"2016-03-28T12:03:59","date_gmt":"2016-03-28T17:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=13765"},"modified":"2016-03-28T12:03:59","modified_gmt":"2016-03-28T17:03:59","slug":"why-pixelated-camo-patterns-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2016\/03\/28\/why-pixelated-camo-patterns-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Pixelated Camo Patterns Work"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Over the last two decades or so, armed forces around the world have abandoned their camouflage patterns in favor of a more pixelated, machine-engineered camo, similar to the blocky graphics in the popular online game “Minecraft.”<\/p>\n

And while it may seem counterintuitive, the digital-print look of the pixelated camos is\u00a0actually notably more effective than earlier designs that sought to mimic nature.<\/p>\n

According to retired US Army Lt. Timonthy R. O’Neill, large blotchy patterns work best for long distances and small patterns work best up close.<\/p>\n

Pixelated patterns marry the two ideas together.<\/p>\n

As the BBC notes<\/a>, “close up, the small patches mimic natural patterns on the scale of leaves on a tree, but from farther away, the clusters of squares create a macro texture that blends with branches, trees and shadows.”<\/p>\n

“Well when I looked at the data I think my observation was something on the order of ‘holy crap’,” recalled O’Neill to the BBC.<\/p>\n

A study commissioned by the Office of Naval Research showed that soldiers wearing the Marine pattern camo (MARPAT<\/a>) took 2.5 seconds<\/a> to detect, while soldiers wearing monocolor, or the large, blotchy NATO camo, could be detected in just about one second.<\/p>\n

Here’s an example of how pixelated camos work in the environment below:<\/h3>\n

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In an armed conflict where the enemy is within visual range, these seconds make all the difference in the world.<\/p>\n

However, some pixelated camos have not been as successful.<\/p>\n

The US Army’s overly ambitious rollout of a pixelated camo (ARPAT) proved too much of a cookie-cutter solution to the various theaters of war US Army soldiers find themselves in.<\/p>\n

The UCP (Universal Camouflage Pattern<\/a>) adopted by the army in Afghanistan proved a huge mistake, as its lack of brown hues made soldiers stand out starkly in the mostly desert backgrounds.<\/p>\n

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Testing has proven time and time again that pixelated camos, as long as they use appropriate colors, are winners.<\/p>\n

This lesson was perhaps lost on the Chinese, who unveiled a shocking maritime camo scheme on a variety of armored vehicles and missile batteries in their September 3, 2015, military parade.<\/p>\n

The blue pixelated camo makes little sense for land-combat vehicles, and even an amphibious vehicle would lose its need for a bright blue camo scheme as soon as it left the water.<\/p>\n

Perhaps the Chinese chose the color scheme to signal a rhetorical shift in the focus of their armed forces to\u00a0naval strength.<\/p>\n

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