ELi5: When taking a photo of a screen, why are the images are so distorted?
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I think what you’re looking at is the [moire effect](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moir%C3%A9_pattern). Intersecting grids at slight angles to each other can cause weird artifacts. In this case, the first grid is the pixels on your screen, and the second grid is the pixels being produced by your camera sensor.
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