GR translation: the brass moire of diamond-blurs passing

[Monte Davis]

Yes! I hadn't thought about a diamond-grid gate on the moving elevator cab
*and* one at each floor. but come to think of it I have seen some old
elevators with both. I suppose I was thinking of the moire coming from a
gate at each floor plus persistence of vision, but this is better.

On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 9:40 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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>> <http://goog_95318601>
>> http://www.multiplevannpileup.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/img_0378.jpg
>> https://ludelizaclopez.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/dsc_12911.jpg
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>> On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 5:37 AM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> 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—
>>>
>>> What does "the brass moire of diamond-blurs" refer to exactly?
>>>
>>
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