Aridcore

The **Aridcore** is a unique camouflage pattern designed by Camouflage Concealment Systems for arid, deserted environments thanks to natural, organic shaped pattern to improve disruptiveness and concealment compared to macro and digital pattern camouflages.

## Description

The Aridcore utilises numerous shades of tan sampled directly from a variety of arid and urban environments combined with various shades of earth and small amounts of green, It is designed to be effective in a wide range of arid environments. This pattern was the first to utilise a process where organic pixels in the micro patterns are grouped into larger, more defined “macro” shapes creating larger more defined patterns designed to be viewed from a distance.

Aridcore is designed as a universal pattern for a wide range of operational environments with additional supporting colour and design variants to suit various terrain.

Many of the modern digital camouflage patterns currently in use by the tactical community have some flaws. There are two major categories of Tactical Concealment camouflage systems that have become the baseline for the past half-century.

Digital Geometric-based patterns – Designed to blend into the “background noise” of the environment, the hard edges and pixelated shapes used to create the distortion effect do not replicate the shapes, forms and shadows of the environment they are deployed in-especially when viewed through optics. The ninety-degree angles and limited use of natural colours can in many cases, make detection easier making these types of patterns not as effective as they should be.

Organic “Blob” Camouflage systems – The oldest of the two classes of camo patterns and the most common, these patterns employ interlocking irregular blobs in variable colours and tones to simulate environmental terrain. The colour palettes are often limited and the designs can be overly simplistic due limited printing and engraving technology at the time.

Aridcore was the first pattern in a new class of hybrid patterns that fit into neither category and addressed and improved on the old style designs in three ways.

1. Replace un-natural square pixels with organic pixels. Featuring a unique process, they created a palette of natural colours digitally sampled from real-world elements in carefully controlled lighting. The pattern is then created using a mathematical algorithm that writes “organically-shaped” pixels using the specific colour information given. The resulting pattern while still digital, is far more organic in appearance.

2. Use small patterns to create larger more distinct shapes designed to work at a distance. Small shapes create larger shapes and larger shapes are organised into a distinct pattern with no horizontal or vertical orientation. This unique “pattern within a pattern” concept allows Aridcore to effectively break the human outline at great distances thereby, minimising the “blobbing” effect of other patterns when viewed from a distance.

3. More effective use of colour-range produces a better concealment system. Aridcore® is created using a far greater range of inter-mingled natural colours than was previously possible. The overall base colour for the cast is a neutral tan which is designed for use in open, rocky or arid environments.