Camouflage the peacock flounder, squid and octopus actively change their skin patterns and colours using special chromatophore cells to resemble their current background, or, as in most chameleons, for signalling. However, Smith's dwarf chameleon does use active colour change for camouflage. Each chromatophore contains pigment of only one colour. In fish and frogs, colour change is mediated by the type of chromatophores known as melanophores that contain dark pigment. A melanophore is star-shaped; it contains many small pigmented organelles which can be dispersed throughout the cell, or aggregated near its centre. When the pigmented organelles are dispersed, the cell makes a
Lozenge camouflage Lozenge camouflage Lozenge camouflage was a military camouflage scheme in the form of patterned cloth or painted designs used by some aircraft of the Central Powers in the last two years of , primarily those of the Imperial German "Luftstreitkräfte". It takes its name from the repeated polygon shapes incorporated in the designs, many of which resembled lozenges. In Germany it was called "Buntfarbenaufdruck" (multi-colored print) but this designation includes other camouflage designs such as "Splittermuster" and "Leibermuster", and does not include hand-painted camouflage. During the early stages of the Great War, the Germans were looking for a way to