The U.S. Marines considered adopting CADPAT for their new pattern, however the Canadian government owns the copyright for the pattern. The Canadian government supplied information and manufacturers to help the Marines with the computer-generated Digital Pattern pixilated uniform the Canadians had been developing since 1988.

According to a source involved in the CADPAT evaluation process, testing with Digital patterns apparently started in Canada around 1995:

CADPAT was officially adopted as the standard Canadian Army pattern in 1997. The pattern had to be reproduced on fabric with exacting accuracy to ensure integrity of the �pixellation�. This pixellation is a key element of CADPAT�s overall effectiveness.

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The initial six-month trial took place in 1998 and involved 660 CADPAT uniforms. Two uniforms were issued to each member of three 110-man Light Infantry Companies stationed in Eastern, Central, and Western Canada.

A final field trial was carried out in 2001, after the earlier tailoring issues had been addressed. This version featured covered buttons rather than exposed ones.

The first CADPAT item issued for general use by the Canadian Army was the cover for the new Kevlar helmet, which reached field forces in 1998. The transition to the CADPAT uniform itself began in late 2001.

CAccording to confirmation from the CADPAT Project Manager, MARPAT is indeed a direct derivative of CADPAT. The USMC reportedly showed strong interest during the later stages of CADPAT’s development. This interest increased when scientific results demonstrated the pattern’s effectiveness and showed its superiority over other temperate patterns then in service. The USMC was seeking a distinctive uniform for the Corps, and CADPAT met that requirement very well. At the request of the USMC, the Canadian government shared CADPAT with the Corps under a bilateral military Exchange Agreement, with full Canadian approval.

CADPAT TW Designed in 1996	Universal Camouflage Pattern (U.S. Army) 3 color version of MARPAT developed after 2000.	Universal Camouflage Pattern (Negative Image and darkened), Note the pattern is identical to CADPAT other than color placement

CADPAT was officially copyright registered in 2001, however, the first published date is 1996. Initial attempts to reproduce the square pixels on fabric could not be reproduced in Canada with the technology available to the Canadian textile industry.

Early CADPAT cloth sample, prior to technology upgrades

This early Canadian made prototype (left) shows the quality problems the industry encountered with the ink seeping past the color boundaries, lacking the professional look of current CADPAT cloth.

Canada was forced to import technology from a European textile manufacturer early in the process to reproduce the high quality cloth until Canada's textile technology was upgraded.

An early Canadian Trial CADPAT Desert Jacket, is shown on the left below is almost identical in pattern to the U.S. Marines Desert MARPAT (Middle below). The Canadians changed their desert pattern from the trial version to the current CADPAT AR (Arid Region) shown Right below. which has a larger blotch size and only three colors versus the four in the trial version.

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The US Marines were not the second in designing a digital camouflage pattern but third:

Second Digital Design:

Unaware of CADPAT or the use of digital pixels in camouflage research,  I (Guy Cramer) began to design digital pixel camouflage as a way of dithering the colors so there were no solid lines between the colors. My first attempt in July 1998 is pictured below (unaltered from 1998), to reduce confusion lets call my sample below "PIXELPAT", while the initial sample here is crude by my standards, however, it proved the feasibility of the pixel/dither between colors: 

 

I enlarged a portion of this sample for this page (right) so you can see the square pixellation I used for the dither effect:

The above sample was placed on a three of my web sites from July 1998-September 1998 and viewed by approximately 30,000 different visitors. I removed the sample from the sites in September 1998

Digital Camouflage historical summary:

Second Use: Government of Canada 1996 CADPAT

Third Use: Guy Cramer 1998 "SASBAN" {PIXELPAT} (objective evidence of 1999 copyright).

Fourth Use: United States Marine Corps; MARPAT year 2000+

*The Marines allowed Propper Int. to make a commercial version of MARPAT called Jungle Stalker. Propper was required to change the colors for this limited run.

Fifth Use: Finland - Army

Sixth Use: China - Marines

Seventh Use: Kingdom of Jordan

As of 2007, Guy Cramer has over 7000+ digital patterns under copyright with full or evaluation licenses issued on some of these patterns.

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