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Here is a video by Half as interesting that talks about the creation of digital camouflage and why the US's army version sucks if anyone is interested.
It's about six minutes long
The Dual Tex in the original post is mentioned in your video, but only in the barest passing.
The video seems like a very lacking overview of UCP. Even in its short runtime contains a least a few common mistakes, like identifying UCP as renamed Urban Track, and it doesn’t really talk about why the chosen colors were chosen. The chosen colors were a mistake, but an informative video about why a mistake was decided on is more productive that’s just pointing out the obvious.
This link is much better. It both identifies the flaws, and it illuminates the (admittedly mistaken) thought process behind the color choices of UCP.
https://www.hyperstealth.com/camo-improvement/index.html
My current view is that either the people running the tests only wanted a camo that blended perfectly into piles of gravel and old lady couches and absolutely nothing else, or they had legally blind people performing the tests. I strongly doubt this link will change my mind but I'll give it a shot.
The TLDR is the focus of the design was entirely on defeating NIR, at the expense of other considerations.
It was somehow worse than I thought.