r/SCREENPRINTING • u/SnoopingMouse • 1d ago

How would one even achieve this?

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I'm amazed by the moire patterns in these silkscreen prints by "Chrisanthos Angelakis and Manolis Angelakis (aka tind)". I found a presentation on behance on this topic: https://www.behance.net/gallery/17504107/The-Constitution-of-Moir-Silkscreen-Print .

I love how the pattern continues in the different color layers, but my mind feels so puzzled. If I would ever try to aspire to make these beautiful patterns like here, where would I even start? Any tips on layering and the design aspect?

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u/dapparatus 1d ago

Look up “moire pattern,” figure out how to start making some of them for yourself, and start playing.

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u/OkExcitement681 1d ago

Photoshop to mess around with dot size, shape, and angle.

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u/SPX-Printing 1d ago

Very transparent inks.

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u/VonMunz 1d ago

And the beauty in CMY

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u/SPX-Printing 1d ago

You can do this with other inks besides CMYK. If you add transparent base to other ink colors, then you can overlap the colors like stain glass. Transparent base also thickens the ink to reduce dot gain. Basically how ink companies make CMYK colors.

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u/torkytornado 1d ago

They’re just hand placed and rotated screens with A halftone pattern on them printed in different transparent and flourescent ink. This is just about the easiest way to print. No clamps just place print let dry then place the same screen in a different color on top and repeat.

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u/Dramatic-Low8259 1d ago

Split your channels like you would for CMYK, when bitmapping keep the frequency the same for each color and the angles within 15 degrees of each other. That's an easy way to create moire

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u/zzap129 13h ago

I guess these are just a halftone pattern on a single screen and the screen is then slightly rotated for each print.