Camo patterns.

[ARMORGUY]

Hey guys, I found this one on the net, maybe it's interesting for some of you.

Isn't it an idea to house all sorts of camo in this thread ?




Best regards !

[dogfish7 (R.I.P.)]

I see more and more digital camo being used, I think because of surveillance from high above.

[JCON]

That looks cool and I agree with Bruce on the digital camo patterns that are more prevalent then in the past...

[dogfish7 (R.I.P.)]

Just about all optics are digital now, but soon, they will be so refined, they'll go back to Kodachrome

[BUCKY]

That is cool! And this is a great thread for info regarding camo patterns. I think any pattern, or variation of patterns will fit here, just fine!

[JCON]

[dogfish7 (R.I.P.)]

Man, that's good! Looks like real straw!!

[MARCO]

Berlin Brigade... Where's the ferkin Chieftain?

[BUCKY]

Nicely hidden, Marcobro!

[JCON]

Finnish cold weather camo...

[JCON]

F-16 Stealth Camo...

[JCON]

A little Ship Digital Camo anyone?

[JCON]

Dazzling isn't it?

[JCON]

What is all over the Mercedes Benz AMG GT??? Apart from this bizarre looking paint scheme, there are other options that car manufacturers use to hide their prototype designs like cover, faux parts etc.

[BUCKY]

I don't get the last ship! What is that?

[JCON]

2017 Aston Martin DB11 in camo

[JCON]

Jan 30, 2018 11:07:25 GMT -6 BUCKY said:

I don't get the last ship! What is that?

Looks like a PT Boat to me but whose I don't know...  

[BUCKY]

The auto industry uses several techniques to hide their prototypes:

 
That's a 2015 Mustang under that cover.

[JCON]

I think it is a US Navy Patrol Torpedo boat Bucky, here is a bit of history on the Dazzle Camo for you...

IN THE second world war, many Allied ships were painted with dark and light stripes, and other contrasting shapes, making them look a bit like zebra. The idea was to distort an enemy submarine commander's perception of the ship's size, shape, range, heading and speed, so as to make it harder to hit with the non-homing torpedoes of the period. These had to be pointed not at the target directly but, rather, at the place where the commander thought the target would be when the torpedo arrived. At the time, it was only an educated guess that this so-called dazzle camouflage would work. But now someone has actually tested it and the short answer is that it does work—but not in the way that Allied navies thought it did. Ships move too slowly. Dazzle camouflage might well, however, have a role in protecting faster-moving vehicles, such as military Land Rovers.
Nicholas Scott-Samuel, of the University of Bristol, and his colleagues came to this conclusion by asking volunteers to watch patterned rectangles cross a computer screen. Some of the rectangles had horizontal stripes inside them. Some had vertical stripes. Some had zig-zags. And some had checks. Some, acting as controls, had no internal patterns. Each test involved a jazzy rectangle crossing the screen either before or after a plain one. Volunteers had to estimate which of the two was travelling faster.

In fact, in all cases, the two rectangles travelled at the same speed. But the researchers varied the conditions in other ways, without telling the participants. Sometimes both rectangles travelled slowly, at just over 3º of arc a second from the observer's point of view, mimicking a ship. Sometimes they travelled much faster, at 20º a second, mimicking a land vehicle. The jazzy rectangles also differed. Some were low contrast (ie, not very jazzy) and some high contrast.
The upshot, as Dr Scott-Samuel reports in the Public Library of Science, was that participants were not fooled by slowly moving rectangles, nor by low-contrast ones. But fast-moving, high contrast ones did fool them. On average, an observer reckoned such a fast, jazzy rectangle was going 7% slower than was actually the case.
Ships, then, travel too slowly for dazzle camouflage to have an effect. In any case, modern torpedoes and missiles are guided to their target electronically. But 20º a second corresponds to the perceived movement of a vehicle 70 metres away that is travelling at 90km an hour. That is precisely the sort of distance from which an unguided rocket-propelled grenade might be fired at a lightly armoured military vehicle, and precisely the sort of speed such a vehicle might be travelling at. Perhaps the answer, then, is for modern armies to buy their Land Rovers second-hand from game parks, which often paint them in zebra stripes for effect. Whether real zebras are striped that way to confuse predators, has yet to be determined.

[JCON]

Here is a different view and you can see the flag is US!!!