In this day and age, we always think that there aren’t many things that can truly surprise or amaze us. But the internet always keeps coming up with things that sweep us off of our feet. Remember the blue/black or white/gold dress? Or the image that looked like a door or a beach? Or what about the couple hugging in a strange way? Well, now we’ve something new on our hands and it’ll probably blow your mind if you’re seeing it for the first time.
Reddit user tomeric1928 posted a video of a painting of a girl with some strange patterns on it. However, as soon as the artist brought a striped piece of paper on top of it, things became clear why it was drawn so oddly.
That’s right. The apparently still image began to move as the artist moved the stripped piece of paper to and fro. And, by the looks of it, she’s crossing herself or blessing herself in the way Christians do. That’s some neat stuff if you ask me.
Redditors who were exposed to this were totally amazed and some even claimed it was “witchcraft”.
1. It is, isn’t it?
2. Makes sense.
3. What’s the lyrics after that?
4. Totally agree.
5. Well, that’s not exactly an impossible thing to do.
Okay, to be honest, it’s neither the process for making gifs, nor is it any kind of witchcraft. It’s a form of art that’s actually called moire patterns.
Moire patterns are large-scale interference patterns that can be created by overlaying an opaque ruled pattern with transparent gaps on another similar pattern. Which is exactly what the artist did. The kinds of moire patterns are line moire and shape moire. And they’re mostly used for printing full-colour images, in television screens and photographs, for marine navigation, on bank notes and during microscopy.
Here’s an example of a moire pattern:
And here’s another one for your viewing pleasure:
So, are you impressed by these real life examples of magic or do we need to call Doctor Strange now?