Digital camouflage originated from the camouflage clothes of Scottish bird hunters.
The prototype of camouflage clothing can be traced back to the "Geely clothing" in Scotland. Originally a camouflage tool used by hunters, it is said that it was invented by the hunter Ghillie, and it is mainly used to hide in the jungle and paralyze birds for hunting. The original Geely clothing is a coat decorated with many ropes and cloth strips, which has a good hiding effect in the dense vegetation environment and is difficult for even alert birds to find.
Geely clothing was popularized in World War II and renamed as "sniper clothing". Snipe is famous for its quick action and difficult hunting. People who are good at hunting this kind of bird are called snipers, and later they become proper terms for snipers.
Germany's first three-color camouflage has a high evaluation.
Because snipers and scouts took the lead in using Geely clothes as camouflage, they achieved good results. This also makes other arms and services compete to imitate, and camouflage uniforms commonly used by soldiers came into being at present. The first real camouflage uniform was born in Italy in 1929. It has four colors: brown, yellow, green and yellow-brown. The "tricolor camouflage suit" invented by Germany during World War II was the first model to be put into use on a large scale. This camouflage suit is covered with three irregular patches. On the one hand, it can distort the outline of the human body. On the other hand, some patches are similar to the background color, while others are obviously different from the background color, which divides the shape of the human body from the visual effect, thus achieving the effect of camouflage deformation.