The Dazzle design resembles a cubist painting, featuring many colored geometric shapes jumbled together like typical mottled camouflage. There’s no way to make ships blend in with the water or the sky, not perfectly, but a type of camo called “Dazzle” camouflage made them harder to attack. The horizon is a flat background that is typically a single color. Ships are more difficult to camouflage, however. And so, to help actual military bases and equipment hide, decoy and dummy sites are created to misdirect the enemy. This isn’t a perfect camouflage, however. Since World War II, American military equipment has been colored dull greens and browns and covered with netting, chicken wire, and natural foliage, to make it more difficult to spot from the air. Since World War I, aircraft has been used to spot the other side, and so military equipment has begun to make use of camouflage as well. Using this same principle, the science behind military camo is used to create decoys. So, the mottled mix of colors used in camouflage prevents you from being as identifiable because the “visual disruption” makes it hard to identify the person wearing it because we identify objects that have one continuous color. If you mix them up, however, you don’t group anything by color. If you see objects of two colors, you’ll group them separately. This is part of the brain’s habit of looking for continuity – if you see objects of the same color, you’ll put them in one group. When you see many trees, your brain categorizes it as a forest and doesn’t pay attention to individual trees. When looking at a scene, for example, and see a vertical brown object with a green top, you see a tree. Your brain handles all the stimuli it receives from your eyes by categorizing objects. When you’re looking at this camouflage in a matching environment, your brain “connects” the lines of the camo’s splotches with the surrounding environment and warps your perception and how you recognize the person wearing the camouflage. The reason the patches look like inkblots and the lines meander is to confuse the eyes and hide the silhouette of a soldier hiding in the environment. Uniforms may come in either a single color or a pattern of several similarly colored patches mean to be visually disruptive. For the desert, they use tan colors to match the sand, and for snowy climates, they use whites and greys. For the jungle, this is typically green and brown to match both the foliage and the dirt. The uniforms use dull hues that match the intended environment soldiers will be in. There are two components to military camouflage: color and pattern. To explain how it works, read on for the science behind military camo. In fact, camouflage predates humanity itself, having been an evolutionary adaption for many animals that ensured their survival by blending into their environment, and that’s what military camo aims to achieve as well. Camouflage is more than just a fashion statement it’s used to hide soldiers and their equipment in plain sight.
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