Why settle for one? In that case, squid skin and change color as you see fit.
I would like to be number three since it looks the most made up.
It is patterned for some people: Freckles, moles, vitiligo, etc.
There are patterns we can’t even perceive too.
For the purpose of answering the question though, I’d want chromataphors I can change at will!
My understanding is most odd us do have these patterns, we just can’t see them.
Yep, there’s a good chunk of the light spectrum we can’t perceive and so the patterns that reflect them are invisible to us.
Trill spots!
Well, I have freckles all over the place, so my pattern was chosen already.
One of those noodle labyrinths from kids menus. Entrance is my mouth, exit is… well you can figure that out.
Argyle
Black and white stripes to match my football ⚽ team.
Fractals.
I’d like the color and texture shifting of octopodes. That would be pretty fucking cool.
After that, maybe stripes. Spots are something some humans have and it’s a mixed bag.
Dated a Jamaican woman with a bit of vitiligo. She was wildly attractive to me without being “pretty” in any conventional sense.
5’10", 110lbs. Kinky hair, but not a fro. Dark and light skin, and not just the lighter areas, all at once.
LOL, I could go on. She was a beautiful, smart and interesting woman. With spots.
A leopard pattern would be cool.
Sounds like another thing to be racist about for typical dumb fuck populations.
That sort of confirms how cool the extra diversity would be!
Whatever it is that cuttlefish have.
Subdermal chromatophore neuromod costs 9 canisters of nanites.
Works on biological opponents but mechs will still spot you (and you can only slot either that mod or thermoptic camouflage, unless you go black market, but the seepage rate is way too high for my tastes)
Human skin actually does have a pattern, we’re striped. But usually it’s skin coloured stipes on a skin coloured background so it’s hard to see.
Came here to say exactly this, only I wasn’t expecting to be anywhere as concise and erudite as you have been.
Cool