'Another exponent of camouflage was P. Tudor Hart, a painter who had made and intensive study of colour values in Paris... Tudor Hart was generally critical of current military camouflage and explained that when objects on land were concealed they tended to absorb rather than to reflect the light. At sea the opposite occurred. He proposed to pant a geometrical pattern of alternating stripes of warm and cold colours, graded according to the area they covered. At a distance these colours were supposed to mix optically, assuming a general grey tone. Tudor Hart believed that because the colours were pure and arranged in a mathematical relationship they would 'fluctuate with the increase or decrease in light.'' Camouflage: A history of concealment and deception in War, Guy Hartcup.
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