# Camoflage shader

The "camo" shader creates a pseudo-random tri-color camoflage pattern on the object using a fractal noise pattern. This is a procedural shader based upon a fractal noise function known as fractional brownian motion or fBm.

The fractal noise function produces a pseudo- random number in the range [-1.0 ... 1.0] from the 3-space coordinates of a point in the bounding volume of the region. This noise value is used to determine the color of the object at the given location.

Noise value | Object Color
--- | ---
nv < thresh1 | color1
nv < thresh1 and nv < thresh2 | color2
nv > thresh2 | color3

The fractal pattern has infinite resolution. As a result, the borders of the color splashes never become pixelated, no mater how close the eyepoint is to the surface.

Parameter | Abreviation | Default Value
--- | --- | ---
Noise Parameters
lacunarity | l | 2.1753974
H | H | 1.0
octaves | o | 4.0
size | s | 1.0
vscale | v | 1.0/1.0/1.0
delta | d | 1000/1000/1000
Shader Specific Parameters
thresh1 | t1 | -0.25
thresh2 | t2 | 0.25
color1 | c1 | 97/74/41
color2 | c2 | 26/77/10
color3 | c3 | 38/38/38

Lacunarity
  The grid on which the noise function is built is scaled by this value for each successive octave of noise which will be combined to produce the final result.
H
Octaves
  The number of times the noise grid will be scaled and recombined to produce the final noise function
Size, Vscale
  If size is set it is used as a scalar which defines the size of the noise grid on the object. So if t2=0.5 and size=5mm then splotches of color3 would tend to be no larger than 5-10mm. If non-uniform scaling is required, Vscale can specify the grid size in X, Y and Z.
Delta
  This specifies a translation in noise space for the origin of region space. Since the origin of noise space is reflected 8 ways, it is undesireable to have that portion of noise space overlap with region space.

## Limitations

Because of the continuous nature of the fractal noise space, it is impossible to get a splash of color1 directly adjacent to a splash of color3.