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Thylacine 2, 'Arabica' (proposal)
Commonwealth of Australia

Representing a further development of the 2006 'Thylacine' family of camouflage patterns, Roggenwolf's 'Thylacine 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 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.

'Thylacine 2' may be adapted to a variety of operational settings by loading different colour palettes. The example shown here is a specially developed low contrast version of the base pattern loaded with a the five-colour 'Arabica' palette, which was derived through the computer-aided reduction of colour satellite photographs of the Arabian Peninsula.

This version of 'Thylacine 2', a version for wooded terrain, and a version for semi-arid terrain were submitted to the Australian Defence Material Organisation (DMO) in July 2008.

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