On Mon, 8 Mar 2004, John Galban wrote:

(Teacherjh) wrote in message ...
I read somewhere that the standard camouflage (splotches of various greens) was
not as effective at hiding things as random sharp edges of contrasty colors.
It's anti-intuitive, and I don't have a picture of it, but maybe somebody else
remembers.

The Royal Navy used that method for ships. The random patterns and
contrasting colors made it difficult to identify a ship's type, speed
and course from a distance. I don't know if the same thing would
work on aircraft.

Well, the Czech Air Force tried something related on at least one Mig21:

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/469919/M/

Pretty cool paint scheme, but I'm not sure how useful it would be as
actual camo while airborne.

Brian.