One of the simplest and most beautiful naturally occurring patterns can be observed when light is shined through a pair of slightly misaligned periodic structures. This phenomenon, known as the moiré ...

A moiré pattern appears when you stack and rotate two copies of an image with regularly repeating shapes, turning simple patterns of squares or triangles into a groovy wave pattern that moves across ...

If you hold one wire mesh on top of another one and look through it, you'll see a larger pattern called a moiré pattern formed by the overlapping grids of the two meshes, which depends on their ...

Researchers with the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, have created an innovative method to visualize and analyze atomic structures ...

Scientists have visualized the two parts of an elusive particle -- the moiré exciton -- to reveal its structure and unique properties. Published in leading journal Nature, scientists from the Okinawa ...

Scientists are constantly engineering new materials that exhibit exotic properties. Moiré materials are a deceptively simple. Take a material made of a single type of atom, like a block of graphite.

If you’ve ever seen artifacts on a digital picture of a computer monitor, or noticed an unsettling shifting pattern on a TV displaying someone’s clothes which have stripes, you’ve seen what’s called a ...

'moire ', a pattern that should not exist in the photos taken, scanned images, and illustrations uploaded to SNS. Martin Wihary, who works as a designer and writer, explains the causes of this moiré ...