Colour by Numbers Colour by Numbers Colour by Numbers is the second album by the British new wave band Culture Club, released in October 1983. Preceded by the hit single "Karma Chameleon", which reached number one in several countries, the album reached number one in the UK and has sold more than 16 million copies worldwide. It has been certified triple platinum in the UK and quadruple platinum in the US. It was ranked #96 on "Rolling Stone" magazine's list of the 100 Best Albums of the 1980s. "Colour by Numbers" has sold more than 16 million copies worldwide, and like its predecessor,
Military camouflage and impressionism also influenced the development of camouflage as they dealt with disrupting outlines, abstraction and colour theory. The French established a "Section de Camouflage" (Camouflage Department) at Amiens in 1915, headed by Lucien-Victor Guirand de Scévola. His "camoufleurs" included the artists Jacques Villon, André Dunoyer de Segonzac, Charles Camoin and André Mare. Camouflage schemes of the First World War and Interwar periods that employed dazzle patterns were often described as "cubist" by commentators, and Picasso claimed with typical hyperbole "Yes, it is we who made it, that is cubism". Most of the artists employed as "camoufleurs" were traditional representative