[DogByte6RER]

Copycat.

[autumnraine]

GAH! He looks like a Klan member that got a hold of some black duct tape.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Wow amazing, where is he I can’t see him at all.

[Flag_This]

Where?

[madison10]

It isn’t working...

[RegulatorCountry]

Now I know what inspired Plan 9 From Outer Space.

[Theoria]

[Flag_This]

How Not to be Seen

[Chode]

[Slyfox]

Interesting.

I was watching the Army-Navy game a few years back and just as they were starting the game they showed a long shot from the side of one end field and it looked like about a third of the stadium was empty. Then, they panned in and there were people seated there, all wearing camouflage.

That was a pretty stunning view.

[La Lydia]

Doppler effect gone awry.

[LibWhacker]

Exactly. If I saw him up in a tree, I wouldn’t recognize that he was a human being because of all the zebras in the trees.

[CIB-173RDABN]

Easy to make jokes but this may have been very effective.

The human eyes do not see everything, the mind fills in the blanks by what it knows. If you break up the shape where the mind does not recognize it as a human, you will not see him.

If this was on the western front, the only trees around would be burnt out stumps. Black and white would blend in with this environment

[Squawk 8888]

How not to be seen

[ConservativeInPA]

The Scots were a head of their time: Ghillie suit
The name was derived from gille, the Scottish Gaelic for "servant" or a "lad". In English, this term was especially used to refer to those assisting in deer hunting, deer stalking or fly fishing expeditions in the Scottish Highlands.

The ghillie suit was developed by Scottish gamekeepers as a portable hunting blind. Lovat Scouts, a Scottish Highland regiment formed by the British Army during the Second Boer War, is the first known military unit to use ghillie suits.

[Oztrich Boy]

PHOTO - 1917: Soldier in Black and White Camouflage

Logical, the world was black and white then. The world didn't turn color until sometime in the 1930s, and it was pretty grainy color at first.

[Stingray]

They used to camouflage ships that way, too. It’s called “razzle painting” and it confuses the eye of the person targeting them, because it makes it harder to tell their direction and speed when they’re moving.

The effect works for clothing, too. In cover, it’s also much tougher to pick up the outline of a target.

Breaking up the outline of the target and confusing the eye of the predator is how it helps zebras survive out in the open.

[444Flyer]

He's doing it all wrong!

[Vendome]

LOL

I was thinking “Here Kitty, Kitty”.

Like a Bengal Tiger.

[kaehurowing]

That’s to trick people into thinking he’s a panda bear up in the tree.

[JoeProBono]