Investigation on colour for Saturated Space AA Research Clusters
The Natural world is our first and foremost reference regarding the most fundamental uses of colour. Through its deployments, nature has taught us to reproduce and develop new colours, and given us new abilities and techniques for transforming and building a range of novel and responsive human environments.
Mimetic processes are complex phenomena of environment adaptation, and constitute the main utilization of colour in the animal world. In this text are analyzed the foundational aspects of visual camouflage, from functions that synergistically connect various elements (colours, forms, motion, context, etc.) in space, to techniques and tactics of visual camouflage. These phenomena involve environment adaptation, communication, relations between subjects and surrounding elements, all of which are key concepts in a complex system that implicitly suggests new perspectives on our own built environment.
The text concludes with some explicit suggestions about the possible further migration of functions and techniques between the natural and built environment, that may aid the redesigning and re-thinking of man’s artificial environment.
http://www.saturatedspace.org/2012/07/colour-strategies-in-nature.html