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From: bxr307@csc.anu.oz
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: camouflage
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Date: 6 Jul 90 03:26:48 GMT
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From: bxr307@csc.anu.oz
In article <1990Jul5.020418.14002@cbnews.att.com>, boulder!pikes!pikes.Colorado.EDU!ndimas@ncar.UCAR.EDU (Nicholas Dimas) writes:
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> From: boulder!pikes!pikes.Colorado.EDU!ndimas@ncar.UCAR.EDU (Nicholas Dimas)
> 
> Is there a theory behind the concept of cmmoflauge(sp?).  I mean
> aside from just "hide it".  How are the patterns thought up?
> stuff like that!

	Going back to my days in the Army here in Australia we were always
taught the major principles of camouflage as being (and not in any particular
order of importance either, its just the way we had it drummed into you):-

1) Shape
2) Shine
3) Surface
4) Silouhette (?sp)
5) Colour
6) Movement

	These were the things which you had to be aware of if you were
comouflaging up either yourself, a vehicle or similar item.  In personal
camouflage we were always taught to be particularly sparing in applying `cam'
cream to skin, as too much was just as useless as too little.  There was
nothing worse than seeing a pair of eyes or mouth appearing in the middle of
a face which had had cam cream caked on it! (something which seems to not 
concern most American soldiers today who copy the "Ramboesque" style of 
covering every square inch of their faces with cam cream and then leave their
arms bare, not even bothering to roll down their shirt sleeves).  There are 
whole text books though on how to make use of camouflage as there are also 
several on its history.  If people wish I'll hunt out the several I have 
and post the references in sci.military.

Brian Ross