[HTML][HTML] The scaling effects of substrate texture on camouflage patterning in cuttlefish

CC Chiao, C Chubb, K Buresch, L Siemann… - Vision research, 2009 - Elsevier
… results support the concept that the cuttlefish patterning responses depend on substrate
spatial scale. We discuss the scale-dependency in the context of cuttlefish camouflage tactics. …

[HTML][HTML] Cuttlefish camouflage: the effects of substrate contrast and size in evoking uniform, mottle or disruptive body patterns

A Barbosa, LM Mäthger, KC Buresch, J Kelly, C Chubb… - Vision research, 2008 - Elsevier
… -scale light and dark patches, again with minimal contrast. Mottle patterns have small or
large-scale … Both uniform and mottle patterns achieve camouflage by the principle of general …

Cephalopod dynamic camouflage: bridging the continuum between background matching and disruptive coloration

RT Hanlon, CC Chiao, LM Mäthger… - … of the Royal …, 2009 - royalsocietypublishing.org
… are key visual cues that guide cephalopod camouflage patterning. Mottle and disruptive …
For readability, we use a scale in which energy is normalized by the maximum value of the …

[HTML][HTML] How visual edge features influence cuttlefish camouflage patterning

CC Chiao, KM Ulmer, LA Siemann, KC Buresch… - Vision Research, 2013 - Elsevier
patterns are strongly influenced by visual edges in the substrate. The aim of the present study
was to examine how cuttlefish body patterning … The Y-axis is scaled based on the standard …

The dynamics of pattern matching in camouflaging cuttlefish

T Woo, X Liang, DA Evans, O Fernandez, F Kretschmer… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
… We studied here the 2D features of camouflage and therefore refer to them as skin patterns
… We first standardized features by removing mean and scaling to unit variance. We obtained …

Mottle camouflage patterns in cuttlefish: quantitative characterization and visual background stimuli that evoke them

CC Chiao, C Chubb, KC Buresch… - Journal of …, 2010 - journals.biologists.com
… light and dark objects (or with some repetition of small-scale … cues to elicit mottle camouflage
patterns in cuttlefish. Lowering … scale of mottle patterns whereas A2 showed medium scale

A review of visual perception mechanisms that regulate rapid adaptive camouflage in cuttlefish

CC Chiao, C Chubb, RT Hanlon - Journal of Comparative Physiology A, 2015 - Springer
… suggest that body patterning of cuttlefish is scale dependent. … the scale dependency of the
cuttlefish patterning responses … patterning responses depend on substrate spatial scale (Fig. …

How camouflage works

S Merilaita, NE Scott-Samuel… - … Transactions of the …, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
… various ways that colours and patterns could be used to improve camouflage. What are now
… as a sample of the background at the spatial scale of the animal, has a long history [2] and …

Perception of visual texture and the expression of disruptive camouflage by the cuttlefish, Sepia officinalis

EJ Kelman, RJ Baddeley… - Proceedings of the …, 2007 - royalsocietypublishing.org
… into camouflage design. Edge detection is an important aspect of vision, and here we compare
the body patterns … The prints were calibrated for linearity with a grey scale over a range of …

Quantifying camouflage: how to predict detectability from appearance

J Troscianko, J Skelhorn, M Stevens - BMC evolutionary biology, 2017 - Springer
… Moreover, it will also allow us to design effective camouflage patterns for … camouflage when
they were at the same orientation as the stripes in their background at a similar spatial scale. …