beer Posted January 12, 2012 Share Posted January 12, 2012 New Camo Courtesy Special Operations AppsCamouflage works by confusing the brain. Disruptive patterns obscure a form’s outline, making objects less likely to stand out. But camo has a weakness: No pattern works for every environment. Special Operations Apps, a software design firm in Wilmington, N.C., has developed a process to make site-specific camouflage.The software combines photographs of a given location, taken by satellites, drones or reconnaissance teams, into customized, terrain-specific patterns that can be printed directly on a garment. Because the pattern is made from images taken at various focal lengths, it also inhibits depth perception, making it more difficult for the brain to process camouflaged surfaces into a single object. For now, use of site-specific camouflage will be limited to Special Operations units. And it could be short-lived.Special Operations Apps recently filed a patent on an “adaptive” material that consists of a vinyl substrate, a flexible image display that could adjust to a given environment, and thermoelectric panels that could modify a soldier’s heat signature.(source) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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