How did we go from bright red coats to digital patterned uniforms? Camouflaged uniforms are basically patterns scientifically and artistically designed to deceive your eye. It’s a jedi mind trick on your eyeballs to make them think there really is no danger in right front of you. When military camouflage is done correctly it’s capable of making even the least stealthy of soldiers practically invisible to our perceptions. But today we take this “craft” naye!…this artform for granted, we act like camo has been around forever when the fact is it’s still a relatively new battlefield development….for humans anyway. For centuries troops wore bright red colors into the fight, British Troops fought in bright red coats as recently as 1885.