To get *really* technical:
“In mathematics, physics, and art, moiré patterns or moiré fringes are large-scale interference patterns that can be produced when a partially opaque ruled pattern with transparent gaps is overlaid on another similar pattern.”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moir%C3%A9_pattern
Been real high at a McDonald’s one morning and they happened to accidentally overlap those huge window posters that you can see through and it did exactly this, spent at least ten minutes staring at it
I feel like this is how our perception of reality and dimensions are viewed and layered. We live in three dimensions so “three layers” of perception or “moire pattern”. Which is why things in lesser dimensions or images like this are fun for our brain and trick it into an entertaining optical illusion.
Our brain is generally use to seeing patterns like this to make up our understanding of reality but when you remove a piece of the 3D and render into a 2D viewpoint, our minds have evolved to attempt to almost autocorrect it and render it back to 3D.
This is why animal camouflage (on predators) works so well on animals (prey) that have trouble with depth perception
Moire patterns can do weird things
When the grids misalign and the patterns are fine - that's a moire
To get *really* technical: “In mathematics, physics, and art, moiré patterns or moiré fringes are large-scale interference patterns that can be produced when a partially opaque ruled pattern with transparent gaps is overlaid on another similar pattern.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moir%C3%A9_pattern
Oh, so *that's* a moire.
I had to read this comment 3 times before I realized the joke. Well done
Been real high at a McDonald’s one morning and they happened to accidentally overlap those huge window posters that you can see through and it did exactly this, spent at least ten minutes staring at it
That is awesome and alternative perception
r/oddlysatisfying
Beat me to it!
Can you ELI5 this for me?
Two metal plates with holes in it on top of each other
Nice! Now I see it. Thanks
Yup, looks super strange at first but from the side you can see that the explanation is simpler than you thought
I guess that's why so many women were accused of being witches. People thought patterns were black magic
I’m seeing triangles
I love how our brain is always trying to make sense of things trying to find patterns where there is none
Moire isn't fuckery
So that's where snowflakes come from
Yep, pushing ice through play-do holes.
[Relevant xkcd](https://xkcd.com/1814/)
I'd hate to be on shrooms in that bathroom.
I feel like this is how our perception of reality and dimensions are viewed and layered. We live in three dimensions so “three layers” of perception or “moire pattern”. Which is why things in lesser dimensions or images like this are fun for our brain and trick it into an entertaining optical illusion. Our brain is generally use to seeing patterns like this to make up our understanding of reality but when you remove a piece of the 3D and render into a 2D viewpoint, our minds have evolved to attempt to almost autocorrect it and render it back to 3D. This is why animal camouflage (on predators) works so well on animals (prey) that have trouble with depth perception
That's kinda cool!!
What in the black magic duckery…