Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Project 4: Camouflage




Working in pairs, create a camouflage pattern on a sheet of Bristol that hides in an environment either inside the AD building or in the immediate environs (no further than one block away). Each pair will take class to your site where the class will judge the effectiveness of the camouflage.

Roger Hanlon, a marine biologist at Woods Hole, Massachusetts who studies the camouflage skills of the cuttlefish and octopus, has found natural camouflage systems correspond to three disguise templates: uniform color, random patterns within a single color variation, and disruptive patterning that disguises the body outlines. These correspond to color, texture and outline as the three most important perceptual mechanisms for object perception. The first two mechanisms degrade the color and texture cues for outline, and the last degrades the cues for object recognition from perceptible outline.

• You will choose work-partner on Tuesday, September 22.
• You must use a full sheet of paper (9"x12"), no cutting it down.
• Your chosen site and subsequent sheet must utilize at least three color/texture areas.
• You may not use the bathrooms, stairways or otherwise block a fire exit.

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