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Uncover your potential', indeed! Once you stop ogling the girl, though, you might notice that this Australian Special Air Service (SAS) recruiting poster shows Australian Disruptive Pattern Camouflage to very good effect. [Image courtesy Brad Turner collection.]

Raggedy Man 2, 'Norforce' (proposal)
Commonwealth of Australia

Representing a further development of the 2006 'Raggedy Man' family of camouflage patterns, Roggenwolf's 'Raggedy Man 2' pattern is an integrated design, which comprises both a macropattern and a micropattern.

The macropattern has been designed to provide false cues to the peripheral component of the human visual system, which plays a key role in threat detection. It is composed of large, contrasting elements, which obfuscate the natural distribution of light and shadow across the target shape and confuse the perception of depth. In this way, the macropattern disrupts the boundaries and internal geometry of the target shape. The enlarged macropattern used in the 'Raggedy Man 2' camouflage pattern is intended to function over longer ranges.

The micropattern has been designed to provide false cues to the focal component of the human visual system, which plays a key role in threat identification. It has been based upon computer-aided analyses of representative environments and mimics the colours, shapes and spatial frequencies of foliage and other environmental features. Dithering has also been used, to create the illusion of more colours and shades than are actually used in the design; and the micropattern also reveals greater complexity at shorter ranges, to further disrupt the target shape and to simulate visual textures that are not normally associated with the target shape.

'Raggedy Man 2' may be adapted to a variety of operational settings by loading different colour palettes. The example shown here has been loaded with the five-colour 'Norforce' palette, which was derived through the computer-aided reduction of colour satellite photographs of Australia's Northern Territory.

This version of 'Raggedy Man 2', a version for wooded terrain, and a low-contrast desert version were submitted to the Australian Defence Material Organisation (DMO) in July 2008.

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