“Some people were doing work with what's called coarse quantisisation, which is simply breaking things down into squares. “Computer graphics were starting to come to the fore at that time - manipulated digital images,” O’Neill says. The boldly pixelated camo, which despite some initial reluctance has seen increasing use by military forces around the world, seems counterintuitive nothing in nature is so rigidly shaped.Ĭlose up, the small patches mimic natural patterns on the scale of leaves on a tree, but from farther away, the clusters of squares create a macro texture that blends with branches, trees and shadows. The pattern, which resembles the blocky graphics from the computer game, is a stark contrast to traditional variegated “organic” camo designs that militaries have employed since the 19th Century - schemes that use blotches of complementary colours to mimic foliage and other natural features. The Chinese pageant featured columns of military vehicles covered in pixelated squares, some in shades of green and khaki, others in outlandish schemes of blue, white and black. Many of these vehicles had never appeared in public and a notable theme - one that to many eyes came as a big surprise - was the Army’s use of dramatic ‘digital’ camouflage patterns. On 3 September 2015, China celebrated the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II with a, parading hundreds armoured fighting vehicles and some 12,000 troops from the normally secretive People’s Liberation Army through Tiananmen Square in Beijing.
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