Active camouflage is a two-part process; first, the surroundings must be perceived, and secondly, the object to be hidden must change its appearance to match.

Active Camouflage Material Shows Promise At Hiding From Infrared Or Visual Detection. January 7, 2021 by Lewin Day 21 Comments . An invisibility cloak may seem like science fiction, but ...

Tank camouflage has come a long way since the good old days of painting them green and slapping a white star on the side. British defense tech firm BAE Systems is developing an active "e ...

H. G. Wells's "The Invisible Man" brought the idea of invisibility to the mainstream over a century ago. Not long after, the fascination with invisibility became a hot trope in fantasy and sci-fi ...

Active camouflage of SAP solutions in red, green and yellow bushes (Dongsheng Wang et al, Science Advances)Compared to previous human-made camouflaging systems developed in the past, the new SAP ...

A new light-activated ink can change color on demand. It’s made up of colored microbeads that rise in response to different wavelengths of light to change a surface color, which could be useful ...

Not a sci-fi active camo, though. AC:O does have an invisibility power via one of the armor sets, but that's outside the scope of what I'm curious about here (sci-fi camo like in Ghost in the Shell).

This gives them an almost otherworldly aura — and to the scientists trying to understand the mechanisms behind their active camouflage, they might as well be.