Crypsis

FORLOH’s Crypsis Technology™️. Crypsis is the term for an animal’s ability to avoid detection in nature. The company also expanded its development to address all the senses, not just sight. "If an animal smells or hears you, it’s never going to get close enough to make the camouflage pants you’re wearing matter," says Dodkin. "The other senses aren’t as sexy to talk about, but they are actually the most important, especially smell. We realized we had to address the system as a whole." Though camouflage attempted, until a decade ago, to mimic a hunter’s surroundings—leaves and branches for thick cover, brush and grasses for open country, bright whites for snow—the latest research shows that irregular, non-representative patterning is more effective in removing an animal’s ability to determine shape and movement. Two approaches are most common. Disruptive Coloration takes advantage of large, high-contrast swathes to break up the outline of a figure, normally at a closer range. This is similar to how the stripes of a tiger or patches of an African wild dog obscures the animals’ form. Spatial Orientation, which relies on the smaller, squared patterns known as "texture match" in the military, basically allows a form to fade into the landscape at distance. Crypsis uses the two approaches in tandem. "We’ve taken the best of both approaches by blending the two: high-contrast blotches to break up your outline, and digital camo to basically make you look like nothing," says Dodkin.