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Moire is when the dots in the tone line up to produce funky wavy patterns.
revisiting queer giraffes <3 tragic_elegance 2007
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The finest watered silks are known as Moire Antique.
Textiles and Clothing Kate Heintz Watson
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What you are seeing is called "Moire" patterning, and is typical when rendering something with very small repeatable patterns (e.g., brick).
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Moire taffeta is taffeta with a moire finish that has been heat set.
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The first training shoe it can be fitted into, the new Air Zoom Moire, will go on sale at the same time priced at £65.
A cool thing: your Nikes tell your iPod how far you’ve run | Diane Duane's weblog: "Out of Ambit" 2006
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Nike +iPod kit ($29) and Air Zoom Moire sneaker ($100)
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The Nike+iPod kit contains two transceivers; one fits into the left Air Zoom Moire sneaker, the other attaches to Apple's iPod Nano music player.
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More here on Moire phenomena implemented as Java applets where you mouse-drag overlapping layers.
Don't look at the tie! Ray Girvan 2004
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More here on Moire phenomena implemented as Java applets where you mouse-drag overlapping layers.
Archive 2004-04-01 Ray Girvan 2004
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Random, subsequent to my leaving him in Rebma years before, when I had journeyed to Amber to fight my duel with Eric, had been forced by Rebma's queen, Moire, to marry a woman of her court: Vialle, a lovely blind girl.
The Hand of Oberon Zelazny, Roger 1976
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