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Well, I'm now much better informed!

It does sound as if there's not much methodology in this business, beyond empirical testing. Like, is there a science of 'camouflagology'? [oops, when inventing words, never mix latin and greek]

It just seems like it's basically lore, gathered from talking to fgillies and field experience, augmented by tests (which may be omitted, or the results ignored). Anyway, it might be fun to take a minor in camouflagology.



Like, is there a science of 'camouflagology'? [oops, when inventing words, never mix latin and greek]

I don't know if there's a more specific term or not, but camouflage is studied (along with other things) under the general subject of "Crypsis".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypsis

Note that this seems to be more particularly about natural forms of camouflage / etc., as opposed to military camouflage used by humans. But the two areas are clearly related.

Regardless of what you call it, it does appear that there is some science that goes into at least some aspects of this. See, for example:

https://phys.org/news/2021-01-camouflage-arbitrary-environme...




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