Re: Cammo was: girl soldiers

> G'day,
> 
> > Well, it just means that have to get your chemist to deliver 
> > a paint that reflects light exactly like leaves - across the whole 
> > spectrum, and not just one that has the right peak 
> > emission for a normal person ;-)
> 
> I thought the whole point of cammo was that it broke the outline up
not
> necessarily matched the background perfectly anyway, so it'd have to
be a
> combo of colours and shapes etc. This is especially true when you
consider
> the range of "coloured sight" in humans, let alone when you try to
think
> about what other animals (and potentially aliens) see.

A little aside,

Apparently, if your female and carry one color blind gene, there's a
chance you pick up a fourth color receptor (as opposed to the lowly
three normal humans get).  It allows you to pick out more variations
in color.

Daryl "The red-green color blind" 

p.s. Yes ... grass IS orange!  I challenge you to prove me wrong! :-)