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CADPAT: Canadian Disruptive Pattern

The new Canadian patterns; CADPAT (Canadian Disruptive Pattern)Temperate Woodland (TW) and Arid Regions (AR). CADPAT TW has been ratedbest tropical and Temperate Camouflage by NATO soldiers in a recent scientific

study. The Canadian studies show there is a 40 percent less chance of beingdetected from 200 meters away with CADPAT Versus Olive Drab.

CADPAT was officially adopted as the standard Canadian Army pattern in1997. The pattern had to be reproduced on fabric with exacting accuracy toensure integrity of the pixellation. This pixellation is a key element of CADPATsoverall effectiveness.

The initial 6-month trial was conducted in 1998, using 660 CADPAT uniforms. 2uniforms per man were issued to the members of 3 x 110-man Light InfantryCompanies based in Eastern, Central and Western Canada.

A final field trial (with the previous tailoring details addressed, but with covered(as opposed to exposed) buttons was conducted in 2001.

The first general-issue CADPAT item to be issued to the Canadian Army was thecover for the new Kevlar helmet. This item was received by the field force in1998. Conversion to the CADPAT uniform itself commenced in late 2001.

Confirmation through the CADPAT Project Manager; MARPAT is indeed a directderivative of CADPAT. The USMC apparently expressed considerable interestthroughout the latter stages of CADPAT development. This interest peaked when

scientific findings regarding the patterns efficacy indicated its superiority overevery other temperate pattern currently fielded. The USMC was looking for adistinctive Corps uniform, and the CADPAT fit the bill perfectly. At the USMCsrequest, the Canadian government shared CADPAT with the Corps under abilateral military Exchange Agreement. This was done with full Canadianconcurrence.

CADPAT TW Designed in

1996

Universal Camouflage

Pattern(U.S. Army)

3 color version ofMARPAT

developed after 2000.

Universal Camouflage

Pattern(Negative Image and

darkened),

Note the pattern is identicalto CADPAT other than color

placement

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CADPAT was officially copyright registered in 2001, however, thefirst published date is 1996. Initial attempts to reproduce thesquare pixels on fabric could not be reproduced in Canada with the

technology available to the Canadian textile industry.

This early Canadian made prototype(left) shows the quality problems theindustry encountered with the inkseeping past the color boundaries,lacking the professional look of currentCADPAT cloth.

Canada was forced to import technology

from a European textile manufacturerearly in the process to reproduce the high quality cloth untilCanada's textile technology was upgraded.

An early Canadian Trial CADPAT Desert Jacket, is shown on theleft below is almost identical in pattern to the U.S. Marines DesertMARPAT (Middle below). The Canadians changed their desertpattern from the trial version to the current CADPAT AR (Arid

Early CADPAT cloth sample,prior to technology upgrades

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Region) shown Right below. which has a larger blotch size andonly three colors versus the four in the trial version.

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Second Digital Design:

Unaware of CADPAT or the use of digital pixels in camouflageresearch, I (Guy Cramer) began to design digital pixelcamouflage as a way of dithering the colors so there were no solidlines between the colors. My first attempt in July 1998 is picturedbelow (unaltered from 1998), to reduce confusion lets call my

sample below "PIXELPAT", while the initial sample here is crudeby my standards, however, it proved the feasibility of thepixel/dither between colors:

I enlarged a portion of this sample for this page (right) so you cansee the square pixellation I used for the dither effect:

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The above sample was placed on a three of my web sites from July1998-September 1998 and viewed by approximately 30,000 differentvisitors. I removed the sample from the sites in September 1998

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