History of camouflage pattern origins from @fineasjackson

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Talking Head Edit

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1. Present visual paradox
2. Pose central mystery
3. Explain historical catalyst
4. Introduce unexpected innovator
5. Reveal surprising evolution

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The Paradoxical Origin Story

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Presenting a common object that defies logical sense upon close inspection, then traveling back in time to explain the surprising historical problem and unlikely innovator that created it.

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Good at these pants. Green, brown, and black. Blobs with hard edges. They don't look like leaves or bark. Nothing in a forest looks like this. Yet in the woods, they can make you nearly impossible to spot. So how does a pattern that looks like nothing actually hide you? This is Chasing Best episode 97 and today tier looking at camouflage. The birth of camo actually starts in the sky. In Worse War one, armies had a new problem. The airplane. Now the enemy could fly over your lines and look straight down on you. If they could spot the position of your cannon from above, their artillery could destroy it. In September 1914, a French gunner named Lucien Victor Jorin de Sevilla had an idea. Before the war, he'd been a better, making soft pretty pictures in pastel. He hit a gun under a canvas painted to blend in with the ground. In February 1915, the French army set up its first camouflage unit. By the end of the year, Sevola was in charge, and he filled the unit with artists, including Cubists. Cubism was the strangest art in Paris.

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