I see that the US Army has adopted a digital camouflage uniform.
Is digital camouflage called “digital” because it’s generated by pixels, or is there something more sophisticated going on? Is it better on some statistical basis or something?
I did a cursory search but the first sites I found seemed to be more about who discovered it than anything else.
Thanks.
I saw a special on this just the other day on Discovery Times. The idea is that digital patterning allows for dithering, so that the colors are blended together as they are in nature. In nature, objects reflect colors of objects nearby, so that if a brown trunk is surrounded by green leaves, the leaves closest to the trunk will reflect some brown, and the trunk sides will reflect some green. In extreme close-ups, you can see the pixelation of the colors being dithered together. In the old style camouflage, the colors were starkly separated and looked less natural.