{"id":9587,"date":"2024-12-27T20:07:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-27T20:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/?p=9587"},"modified":"2025-01-21T19:57:46","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T19:57:46","slug":"moire-patterns-in-overlapping-mesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/moire-patterns-in-overlapping-mesh\/","title":{"rendered":"Moir\u00e9 patterns in overlapping mesh"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"879\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/mesh-moire-patterns-1433-879x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9796\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/mesh-moire-patterns-1433-879x1024.jpg 879w, 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optical effects for many years, often involving the interaction of digitally generated simple grids such as in the example below from 2008 or as seen <a href=\"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/contemporary-art-and-science-the-creation-of-complexity-from-simplicity\/\">here<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ve previously used the same sort of plastic mesh to create moir\u00e9 patterns in an exhibit in my solo exhibition at Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens in 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The term moir\u00e9 pattern or moir\u00e9 fringe comes from a type of French fabric called moire, in which two layers of fabric are pressed together to form a single sheet in which the slight misallignment of the fabric&#8217;s mesh generates patterns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure data-wp-context=\"{&quot;imageId&quot;:&quot;6a2d2e8224f83&quot;}\" data-wp-interactive=\"core\/image\" data-wp-key=\"6a2d2e8224f83\" class=\"wp-block-image size-full 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