Camouflage in the Movies - Be Kind Rewind

This was an excellent use of camouflage that was shown in Jack Black's "Be Kind Rewind movie. The invisibility effect was realized using painted garments. The effect probably works very well if it is viewed from the right direction; it was very well received by the audience as people laughed during this scene. The movie also features a lot of optical illusions that the actors use to portrait some of the most famous scenes in classic movies.

New technologies in camouflage are being actively researched and developed in many parts of the world; this University of Tokyo-Japan video shows something they coined as optical quasi-invisibility cloak in which the background image is cropped and projected on a reflective surface; this projection is very dependent on the angle from which the camouflage is viewed as in the case of the "Be kind rewind movie".

Camouflage is not a new thing, and many species in nature have developed many schemes for disguise with both purposes of hunting and hiding to avoid being hunt. The following picture from Wikipedia shows a Lizard Fish in the Big Island of Hawaii; it is an excellent example of camouflage in nature. In the picture you can see that the head of the fish has coloring very similar to the gravel, while the rest of the body is hidden beneath the gravel.