IRS Literature Review, Rachit Agrwal (20)

IRS Literature Review

The review is related to the research because it will help us to find why the people made the digital pixelated camouflage and why it is so popular. Also, we can find tips on how to represent our data once we finish the research. Our scope will be comparing the effectiveness of the old Singapore army uniform which followed NATO and the new uniform which is pixelated and follows the design of MARPAT. I will be discussing the point of this research and what is the problem we are tackling and why.

The point of this research is to help find out how effective the pixelated camouflage is than the others like MARPAT and NATO. We need to carry out this research because of the fact that the use of the uniforms has started to become more of a fashion statement than a tool for self protection and camouflage to reduce personal vulnerability. 

The problem is that people have been growing tired of bringing up so many ideas for a uniform for comparison. The solution which has been is the pixelated pattern which is better than all the others. 

We are tackling the problem to test its effectiveness because the army uniform is an integral part of a soldier. It might make a difference in life-death situations. 

To end it off, Lt.Col. O'Neill adds the following, to conclude:

'Digital' camouflage is actually a misnomer, based on the superficial resemblance of these patterns to quantized or coarse digital images. In fact, the pattern of squares (or whatever shape we use) is employed to model the texture of typical backgrounds using a mathematical function. We could use hexagons or shapeless blobs as well, except that it is easier to render complex patterns by computer using squares. It is easy to misunderstand the purpose and mechanisms of this kind of design, which is why so many measures that try to use the approach without insight fall short. (Cramer and O'Neil, 2005)


Sources: Guy Cramer and Timothy R O'Neil, (2005), http://www.kamouflage.net/article/science.php