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| Preface | xiii | 
| 1. Introduction | 1 | 
| 1.1 The moiré effect between aperiodic structures | 1 | 
| 1.2 A brief historical background and main applications | 4 | 
| 1.3 The scope of the present book | 5 | 
| 1.4 Overview of the following chapters | 7 | 
| 1.5 About the exercises and the moiré demonstration samples | 9 | 
| 2. Background and basic notions | 11 | 
| 2.1 Introduction | 11 | 
| 2.2 Periodic, repetitive and aperiodic layers | 15 | 
| 2.3 Superposition of aperiodic layers | 19 | 
| 2.3.1 Glass patterns and correlation | 19 | 
| 2.3.2 Stable vs. singular moiré-free superpositions | 24 | 
| 2.3.3 Macrostructures and microstructures in the superposition | 26 | 
| 2.4 The element distribution in the original layers and its influence | 28 | 
| 2.5 Multilayer superpositions | 30 | 
| Problems | 32 | 
| 3. Glass patterns and fixed loci | 47 | 
| 3.1 Introduction | 47 | 
| 3.2 The fixed point theorem | 48 | 
| 3.3 Behaviour of Glass patterns and periodic moirés under affine mappings | 51 | 
| 3.3.1 Behaviour under layer rotations | 51 | 
| 3.3.2 Behaviour under layer scalings | 53 | 
| 3.3.3 Behaviour under layer shifts | 54 | 
| 3.3.4 Behaviour under a general affine transformation | 59 | 
| 3.4 Behaviour of Glass patterns under general layer transformations | 63 | 
| 3.4.1 Examples with non-linear layer mappings | 65 | 
| 3.5 Mappings in both layers; mutual fixed loci | 72 | 
| 3.6 Synthesis of fixed loci in the superposition | 83 | 
| 3.7 Almost fixed points | 87 | 
| Problems | 96 | 
| 4. Microstructures: dot trajectories and their morphology | 105 | 
| 4.1 Introduction | 105 | 
| 4.2 Morphology of the microstructures; dot trajectories | 106 | 
| 4.3 Dot trajectories as solution curves of a system of differential equations | 107 | 
| 4.4 Dot trajectories as a vector field | 109 | 
| 4.4.1 The curve equations of the dot trajectories | 114 | 
| 4.5 The dot trajectories when both layers undergo transformations | 124 | 
| 4.6 Synthesis of dot trajectories | 134 | 
| 4.7 Dot trajectories in periodic and in repetitive cases | 137 | 
| 4.8 The microstructures under different superposition rules | 139 | 
| 4.9 The visual interpretation of microstructures | 140 | 
| Problems | 148 | 
| 5. Moiré phenomena between periodic or aperiodic screens | 157 | 
| 5.1 Introduction | 157 | 
| 5.2 Brief review: moiré patterns, Glass patterns and dot trajectories | 158 | 
| 5.3 A few detailed examples to illustrate the formal results | 161 | 
| 5.4 Invariance properties of moiré patterns, Glass patterns and dot trajectories | 175 | 
| Problems | 181 | 
| 6. Glass patterns in the superposition of aperiodic line gratings | 187 | 
| 6.1 Introduction | 187 | 
| 6.2 Glass patterns in the superposition of straight line gratings | 188 | 
| 6.2.1 Superposition of 1D vs. 2D aperiodic layers | 189 | 
| 6.2.2 Superposition of periodic vs. aperiodic line gratings | 192 | 
| 6.3 Mathematical derivations: generalization of the indicial equations method | 193 | 
| 6.4 Examples of Glass patterns in the superposition of curved line gratings | 196 | 
| 6.5 The effect of adding constraints to the original layers | 208 | 
| 6.6 A first step towards the intensity profiles of Glass and moiré patterns | 214 | 
| Problems | 221 | 
| 7. Quantitative analysis and synthesis of Glass patterns | 225 | 
| 7.1 Introduction | 225 | 
| 7.2 Brief review of the Fourier approach in the periodic case | 226 | 
| 7.2.1 Spectra of periodic and aperiodic layers | 228 | 
| 7.2.2 Moiré effects in the superposition of periodic gratings | 230 | 
| 7.2.3 Moiré effects in the superposition of periodic dot screens | 233 | 
| 7.2.4 Shape of the intensity profile of the moiré pattern | 236 | 
| 7.2.5 Orientation and size of the moiré cells | 238 | 
| 7.3 Intensity profile of Glass patterns in the superposition of aperiodic gratings | 238 | 
| 7.3.1 Superposition of correlated gratings | 240 | 
| 7.3.2 Superposition of uncorrelated gratings | 246 | 
| 7.4 Intensity profile of Glass patterns in the superposition of aperiofic screens | 248 | 
| 7.4.1 Superposition of correlated screens | 249 | 
| 7.4.2 Shape of the intensity profile of the Glass pattern | 252 | 
| 7.4.3 Orientation and size of the Glass pattern | 253 | 
| 7.4.4 Cases with several fixed points or with continuous fixed lines | 254 | 
| 7.4.5 Superposition of uncorrelated screens | 258 | 
| 7.4.6 Discussion | 258 | 
| 7.5 Higher order moirés | 259 | 
| 7.6 Intermediate, partly periodic cases | 260 | 
| 7.7 Intermediate, partly correlated cases | 262 | 
| 7.8 Glass patterns and cross correlation | 264 | 
| Problems | 270 | 
Appendices
| A. Fixed point theorems for first- and second-order polynomial mappings | 281 | 
| A.1 Introduction | 281 | 
| A.2 The fixed point theorem for linear or affine mappings | 281 | 
| A.3 The fixed point theorem for second-order polynomial mappings | 284 | 
| A.4 Mutual fixed points between two mappings; application to the moiré theory | 288 | 
| B. The various interpretations of a 2D transformation | 289 | 
| B.1 Introduction | 289 | 
| B.2 Interpretation as two surfaces over the plane or as two sets of level lines | 289 | 
| B.3 Interpretation as a mapping from the plane into itself | 290 | 
| B.4 Interpretation as a domain transformation r(g(x,y)) | 294 | 
| B.5 Interpretation as a coordinate change | 295 | 
| B.6 Interpretation as a 2D vector field | 298 | 
| B.7 Relationship between the different representations of g(x,y) | 301 | 
| B.8 Remark on the local reflection of a 2D transformation | 306 | 
| C. The Jacobian of a 2D transformation and its significance | 309 | 
| C.1 Introduction | 309 | 
| C.2 Geometric interpretation of the Jacobian | 309 | 
| C.3 Properties of the transformation g(x,y) that can be deduced from its Jacobian | 311 | 
| C.4 The local orientation properties of a transformation g(x,y) | 319 | 
| C.5 Other properties of g(x,y) that can be deduced from its Jacobian matrix | 322 | 
| D. Direct and inverse spatial transformations | 327 | 
| D.1 Introduction | 327 | 
| D.2 Background and basic notions | 327 | 
| D.3 A deeper look into the domain and range planes of the mapping (u,v) = g(x,y) | 332 | 
| D.4 2D transformations and their inverse | 336 | 
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	D.4.1 The image of the standard Cartesian grid under the
		 transformations g and g-1  | 
337 | 
| D.4.2 The image of a general curve under the transformations g and g-1 | 340 | 
| D.5 The active and passive interpretations of a transformation | 343 | 
| D.6 Domain and range transformations of a function | 347 | 
| D.6.1 The 1D case | 349 | 
| D.6.2 The 2D case | 351 | 
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	D.6.3 The effect of transformation g on objects and on their
		 characteristic functions  | 
355 | 
| D.7 The relative point of view: object deformations vs. coordinate deformations | 356 | 
| D.8 Examples | 357 | 
| D.9 Other possible sources of confusion | 386 | 
| D.9.1 Forward and backward mapping algorithms in digital imaging | 386 | 
| D.9.2 Pre-multiplication and post-multiplication based notations | 389 | 
| D.10 Implications to the moiré theory: issues related to the figures | 390 | 
| D.11 Fixed points of a superposition in terms of direct or inverse transformations | 399 | 
| D.11.1 Fixed points when only one layer is transformed | 399 | 
| D.11.2 Fixed points when both layers undergo transformations | 401 | 
| D.12 Useful approximations | 405 | 
| E. Convolution and cross correlation | 411 | 
| E.1 Introduction | 411 | 
| E.2 Convolution | 411 | 
| E.3 Cross correlation | 413 | 
| E.4 Extension to more general cases | 415 | 
| E.5 The Fourier transform of convolution and cross correlation | 416 | 
| E.6 Methods for quantifying the correlation; similarity measures | 418 | 
| F. The Fourier treatment of random images and of their superpositions | 421 | 
| F.1 Introduction | 421 | 
| F.2 Stochastic processes and their power spectra | 421 | 
| F.3 Possible stochastic modelizations of random screens and gratings | 425 | 
| F.3.1 Point processes | 425 | 
| F.3.2 Shot noise | 426 | 
| F.3.3 Random fields | 429 | 
| F.4 Stochastic modelization of layer superpositions | 430 | 
| F.5 Evaluation of the stochastic vs. deterministic approaches for our application | 430 | 
| G. Integral transforms | 433 | 
| G.1 Introduction | 433 | 
| G.2 Fourier decomposition of periodic and aperiodic structures | 433 | 
| G.3 Generalized Fourier decomposition of geometrically transformed structures | 434 | 
| G.4 Integral transforms and their kernels | 435 | 
| G.5 The use of generalized Fourier transforms in the moiré theory | 439 | 
| H. Miscellaneous issues and derivations | 443 | 
| H.1 Classification of the dot trajectories | 443 | 
| H.1.1 Classification of the dot trajectories in the linear case | 444 | 
| H.1.2 Classification of the dot trajectories in the non-linear case | 447 | 
| H.2 The connection between the vector fields h1(x,y) and h2(x,y) in Sec. 4.5 | 451 | 
| H.3 Hybrid (1,-1)-moiré effects whose moiré bands have 2D intensity profiles | 452 | 
| I. Glossary of the main terms | 457 | 
| I.1 About the glossary | 457 | 
| I.2 Terms in the image domain | 457 | 
| I.3 Terms in the spectral domain | 461 | 
| I.4 Terms related to moiré | 463 | 
| I.5 Terms related to light and colour | 466 | 
| I.6 Miscellaneous terms | 467 | 
| List of notations and symbols | 473 | 
| List of abbreviations | 475 | 
| References | 477 | 
| Index | 485 | 
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