Camo, the Colorblind, and those inventive Brits

Brian B2 said: Seems like the Brits were always coming up with the most
creative, outlandish, downright bizzarre, yet highly effective ways of
defeating the Nazis....

Tomb says: <IRONIC> Yeah! Like eating lots of carrots to spot them thar German
nightfighters!
</IRONIC>

That, of course, was just about as imaginative of a fiction piece as had ever
been seen, of course until Jon dreamed up the NAC....;) <*wink*>

It's quite amazing what the Germans came up with in some of their R&D
programs, same with the U.S. and Britain. Wartime does spur nations to a
rather focused but serious research effort and produces some really neat stuff
(except of course that a lot of it relates to terminating your fellow man...).

On the R-G colourblind thing.... I've known several infanteers with that
affliction. Pain in the arse for lots of stuff on the web and probably rules
you out in some control things (red is used a lot as is green), but for
spotting camo'd people in the bush, they seem to have a good eye for outlines
and aren't fooled as easy by visual camo. Good point men (that's you I'm
thinking of JP).