Fractal camouflage
12-17-2012, 07:21 AM
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Fractal camouflage
I found this photo on a website about the development of various types of "fractal camouflage." My hat's off to the RC modeler who manages to accomplish this color scheme! Makes WWI lozenge look like a cinch. 
12-18-2012, 05:37 AM
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RE: Fractal camouflage
Years from now when pixelation is a thing of the distance technological past, people are going to look at these pixel-patterns uniforms, tanks, and aircraft and wonder what in the heck we were possibly thinking of.
12-18-2012, 07:24 PM
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RE: Fractal camouflage
Yes ... and then again they may look back at this pixel/fractal disruptive camouflage much as we do with WWI Lozenge and think it's pretty cool. Complicated patterns - at least with lozenge you can make stencils for painting it, etc... can you imagine how difficult it would be to make all the intricate rectangles, squares and irregular shapes of this stuff and then apply it accurately
LOL
LOL
12-18-2012, 07:32 PM
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RE: Fractal camouflage
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...can you imagine how difficult it would be to make all the intricate rectangles, squares and irregular shapes of this stuff and then apply it accurately
LOL
...can you imagine how difficult it would be to make all the intricate rectangles, squares and irregular shapes of this stuff and then apply it accurately
LOL
BTW, I read that the WWI lozenge pattern may have been influenced by 1880s thinking on the Impressionist art movement.
12-18-2012, 07:40 PM
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RE: Fractal camouflage
I'd think that either you would get slaughtered by the colors and markings judge, or you'd get a 10 just for trying.
Btw, as a Marine I found the computer camo disappointing, I think you blend in best to a 1970s couch, most natural stuff you stick out in... Just my opinion, I never hand to put it to the test for keeps.
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12-18-2012, 07:53 PM
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RE: Fractal camouflage
ha ha ... and our 3D printers will print out a model complete with working metal engine and radio components. Plug in an ink cartridge along with an aluminum cartridge, balsa, mylar, rubber cartridges, etc. out comes an instant ARF or RTF - but where's the fun of the build?
Go figure - a French artist Monet using the technique for the pleasure of all and the imperialistic huns find a military use for it.
It really it pretty neat though, at a distance the lozenge does resemble pointalism style paining and I find the lozenge really blends into the background it is flying in front of. My lozenge wings kind of disappear if I fly it at distance in front of trees, etc. Kind of the reverse effect of the pointalism painting where the eye assembles the pointalism points or dabs of paint and sees an image - a tree or a person or a face or lily pad etc.
Go figure - a French artist Monet using the technique for the pleasure of all and the imperialistic huns find a military use for it.
It really it pretty neat though, at a distance the lozenge does resemble pointalism style paining and I find the lozenge really blends into the background it is flying in front of. My lozenge wings kind of disappear if I fly it at distance in front of trees, etc. Kind of the reverse effect of the pointalism painting where the eye assembles the pointalism points or dabs of paint and sees an image - a tree or a person or a face or lily pad etc.
