PATLAB is an iOS app that generates digital camouflage patterns.

February 28, 2013 1:23 PM

PATLAB is an iOS app that generates digital camouflage patterns.
A while ago I became minorly obsessed with the aesthetics of digital camouflage. After some initial failures playing around with photoshop, I started exploring ways to replicate these sorts of patterns algorithmically. This eventually turned into PATLAB, an app that generates a colour palette from a user photograph, and uses that to generate an easily-editable camo pattern. Some examples.

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posted by cmyr (2 comments total)

This is a really cool idea. If only there was a good way to print the patterns onto clothing. I would totally make my own thorny scrub and mangrove wetland camo for birdwatching.
posted by snofoam at 2:55 AM on March 5, 2013

To clarify, I'm not suggesting that the App should be able to print the patterns onto clothing, but just that there was a way to do that affordably in general.
posted by snofoam at 2:56 AM on March 5, 2013