Re: LOS and spotting
I noticed something very similar when I was in school as a kid. Some kids were playing hide and seek near the bycicle stands. One was hiding behind two bicycles parked just in front of the stands. Now two bycicles are just some frame work and weels with a whole lot of air in between. Not much to hide behind. But I didn't see him till I almost walked into him. Now that startled me. Okay you say, I wasn't paying attention so I was suprised. True but I did look right at the bikes as they were in my way (as I said in front of the stands instead of parked in the stands). When looking at them I didn't look PAST them. Your mind tends not to. Just like you tend to look at a window at first instead of through it, or at a tree line instead of into the treeline. The best part though was that when I was startled the other kid doing the seeking looked straigth at me and the boy who was kneeling at my feet. The 'seeker' had a straight LOS from about 50-60 feet away to the 'hider' who was only hidden by the two bikes and he did NOT see him. He was actively looking for people and did not spot him. And I checked it a bit later, if you know he's there he's clearly visible. But you tend to see what you think you ought to see, not what's really there. Sometimes hiding in plain sight really works. Logic isn't the only factor here.
Narwan
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