...by being as shockingly contrasting with their environment as possible. Maybe your aesthetics differ, but I find it quite ugly. If it wasn't, it wouldn't grab my attention so well. Wearing something shockingly ugly is a great way to not be mistaken for a deer.
By contrast, I find a well camouflaged deer quite beautiful--once I notice it at all. The beauty comes from the way that it is so clearly a thing of its surroundings. Nothing at all like a bright orange hat.
> Wearing something shockingly ugly is a great way to not be mistaken for a deer.
Sure... yes the bright orange is ugly, but it's not the ugliness that prevents you from getting shot, it's the bright unnatural color. Other hunters aren't thinking "oh that's really ugly, it must not be something I can shoot" they're thinking "bright orange means person, I should not fire my rifle in that direction".
> If it wasn't, it wouldn't grab my attention so well.
Are you saying that if you thought the bright orange was pretty it wouldn't occur to you not to fire your gun in its direction?
If I thought that bright orange was a part of a healthy forest ecosystem, I would likely see beauty in it. And if my intent was to shoot denizens of such an ecosystem, then yeah bright orange would make a poor indicator for "don't shoot here". You'd be better off with something ugly, something which clearly doesn't belong.
