Simulating TV moire pattern

[Fernando Mol]

Yes, the moving bars.

Got this moire pattern gif example from wikipedia. Not exactly a TV moiré but kind of.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Moire02.gif

And this is another example of moire patterns of a TV screen (at the beginning of the video, the curved color bars in the sky).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XphGlc8anHM

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[Kevin Camp]

combining cell pattern (setting dispersal to 0 and size to a low value) and turbulent displace will start create a moire pattern.

Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW

[Walter Soyka]

Moiré patterns are caused by interference between two (or more) sets of lines or shapes. (In acquired footage, you can get Moiré because the lines of an object like a set of electrical wires do not coincide perfectly with the pixel grid of the sensor.)

Adding overlapping and offset or rotated lines, circles, or grids can add Moiré to your image.

If you want a specific Moiré pattern, you can get very fancy and create shape Moiré [link]. This is the same phenomenon that underlies security printing for copy-resistant documents.

Walter Soyka
Principal & Designer at Keen Live
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[Ryan Hill]

And the colours in the TV screen moire comes from the RGB on the screen being offset and so you get a slightly different pattern for each colour.

So you can break it down to two simpler problems:
1) Generate greyscale moiresque patterns
2) Use that to create 3 coloured layers of your footage