Color Camouflage in Nature
Color camouflage in nature is the use of a range of colors, textures, and fabrics to ensure concealment and make identifying them from the environment difficult. The principle is used to produce a variety of effects. Color camouflage is widely used in apparel design to make a particular object recognizable while still making it difficult to identify due to its similarity to the surroundings.
Color Camouflage in Military Clothing
The United States military's war clothing is one example of color camouflage in style. For example, the United States military's Desert war cold weather uniform is strictly white based on the whiteness of the regions to ensure blending with the climate (Muirhead). All the outer garments of the military during winter or in the Polar Regions are designed to be white to help prevent the attack from animals such as bears. The cold weather camouflage clothing for the military is also made to be waterproof to repel water and soaking of the clothing sufficiently. The design of the cold weather military clothing is made to ensure the soldiers can easily adapt to the cold and wet environment during winter and in the Polar Regions.
Color Camouflage in Car Prototypes
Another form of color camouflage in design involves the application of camouflage by the Ford Company to test their new car prototypes on the public roads without being noticed. The company applies a three-dimensional illusion system to ensure they engage in the test of the new cars to be released into the market without the photos being leaked. The 3D optical illusion has helped the Ford Company engineers test the top-rated secret prototypes of cars on the public roads (Johnston). The cars are coated with special stickers in the range of mind-bending, swirling, and squiggling designs that create an optical illusion and make it difficult to see. The 'brick' camouflage trick makes it difficult for the exterior features of the vehicles to be noticed in sunlight, hence preventing them from being captured by cameras. Furthermore, the 3D illusion is tailored in different environments, for instance, the use of sand colors in Australia and South America.
Color Camouflage in Tourist Vehicles
The third form of color camouflage in design involves the development of the tourist vehicles used in the tropical forest region. The tourist vehicles are painted with a jungle green color to ensure they blend in with the forest and allow the tourists to watch and take pictures of the wild animals without difficulty. The jungle green color of the tourist vehicles in the tropical forest region ensures that the vehicle can be driven as close as possible to the wild animals to get a good capture (Berc). Furthermore, the windows are made clear to enable the tourists to capture the events in the forest without any difficulty. Camouflaging the vehicles ensures the tourists have a closer look at the animals they are interested in taking their pictures.
Color Camouflage during WWI
Lastly, color camouflage was also influential during the WWI period. The maritime painter John Everett developed the dazzle painted ships made with the zigzagging zebra stripes to ensure successful camouflage of the British ships against the German submarines. Furthermore, the use of the white and dark stripes on the British ships made them almost unrecognizable in the seas, thereby making surprise attacks possible and successful. The dazzle-painted ships attained the objective through not only invisibility but also creating a confusing judgment for the German submarine captains (Hogan). Therefore, the dazzle painting was effective towards the British naval power and defeat of the Germans.
Works Cited
Berc, Dafne, and Luciano Basauri. "Dispersive Tourism And Camouflage." Upcommons.Upc.Edu, 2012, https:\/\/upcommons.upc.edu\/handle\/2099\/12324.
Hogan, Benedict G., Innes C. Cuthill, and Nicholas E. Scott-Samuel. "Dazzle camouflage, target tracking, and the confusion effect." Behavioral Ecology27.5 (2016): 1547-1551.
Johnston, Rae. "Ford's 3D Camouflage Means Your Camera Can't Focus On Its Secret Test Cars." Gizmodo Australia, 2016, https:\/\/www.gizmodo.com.au\/2016\/12\/fords-3d-camouflage-means-your-camera-cant-focus-on-its-secret-test-cars\/.
Muirhead, Todd A. "Camouflage covering and method of manufacture." U.S. Patent No. 6,500,214. 31 Dec.2002, https:\/\/www.google.com\/patents\/US6500214.
