GR translation: the brass moire of diamond-blurs passing

[David Morris]

I think Monte is probably right about the diamond pattern of elevator gated
doors or cages, but the moire would be the overlapping of two such
patterned gates as one moves past the other, creating a "moire pattern."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moir%C3%A9_pattern

http://www.exploratorium.edu/snacks/moire-patterns

When you look through one chain-link fence at another, you sometimes see a
pattern of light and dark lines that shifts as you move. Moiré patterns are
created whenever one semitransparent object with a repetitive pattern is
placed over another. A slight motion of one of the objects creates
large-scale changes in the moiré pattern. These patterns can be used to
demonstrate wave interference.

http://mytearsspoiledmyaim.blogspot.com/2008/04/vintage-elevator.html

On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 6:58 AM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Likely these pantograph safety gates very common in elevators at the time,
> seen in rapid succession
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> On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 5:37 AM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
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>> V735.8-22, P749.32-750.10   By now the City is grown so tall that
>> elevators are long-haul affairs, with lounges inside: padded seats and
>> benches, snack bars, newsstands where you can browse through a whole issue
>> of Life between stops. For those faint hearts who first thing on entering
>> seek out the Certificate of Inspection on the elevator wall, there are
>> young women in green overseas caps, green velvet basques, and tapered
>> yellowstripe trousers—a feminine zootsuit effect—who’ve been well-tutored
>> in all kinds of elevator lore, and whose job it is to set you at ease. “In
>> the early days,” pipes young Mindy Bloth of Carbon City, Illinois, smiling
>> vacantly away in profile, close by the brass moire of diamond-blurs
>> passing, passing in vertical thousands—her growing-up face, dreamy and
>> practical as the Queen of Cups, never quite looks for you, is always
>> refracted away some set angle in the gold-brown medium between you . . .
>> it’s morning, and the flower man at the rear of the elevator, down a step
>> or two behind the little fountain, has brought lilacs and irises fresh and
>> early—
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>> What does "the brass moire of diamond-blurs" refer to exactly?
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