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Friday, March 25, 2011

Interfere...

—srikanth @ 23:59

This fabric lends its name to a visual artifact in digital video/imaging. Identify.

PS: apologies for superlate post. Gremlins got my internet connection this time.

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The so-called “Moire pattern” is named after the Moire fabric. Interference between closely-spaced sets of parallel lines causes the strange patterns that you see very frequently when people wear stripes on TV :-)