Disruptive Colouration and Perceptual Grouping (original) (raw)
Figure 1
Illustrations from Cott (1940) of the principles of differential blending and disruptive contrast.
Note that the form-disrupting effect of high contrast between colour patches within an animal is more effective when these different parts of the animal match different parts of the background (right-hand versus middle pictures). Drawings were reproduced from the book Adaptive colouration in animals [12].