Re: Cammo was: girl soldiers

>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.

Actually, in both nature and man-made camo, CMIIR, there are a variety
of 
different Camo forms and functions.  Beth mentioned octopus camo, many
of 
it's relatives, notably the Cuttlefish, have similar abilities.  There
are 
fish and insects that resemble twigs.  Zebra camo, among other things,
DOES 
break up the silhouette of the animal, so that a zebra herd looks like
one 
mass of zebra, not individual animals.	Bit stripes also resemble grass
and 
shadows.  Many deer species have spotted young or even adults, and the
spots 
look like dappled sunlight, adding to the camo.  In human camo, there
have 
been many variants that worked in different ways.  A Ghillie suit
definitely 
does more than break up the silhouette - it looks like foliage.  At one 
time, prior to the advancement of ground radar and UV/IR sighting, there

were experiments with a form of camo where vehicles were fitted with
very 
powerful lights.  On a bright day, in the far distance, they were 
indistinguishable from the ambient sunlight.  A friend, father of the 
Oitjuan, told me of a "Cloaking" suit being worked on that he saw in a
TV 
show.  The suit wasmade up of thousands of tiny cameras and monitors,
each 
monitor showing the view from a camera opposite it on the wearer's body
- 
effectively "Bending" light around the person.	He said it was
surprisingly 
effective.  I suppose the "Camo/stealth/cloaking" technologies in the
future 
will be varied and many.  Makes for interesting PSB/flavor for each 
gameworld/background....

Brian B2

_________________________________________________________________
Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at
http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp.