Using a virtual camera to avoid moiré patterns in pictures of screens

Photographing a computer screen produces inevitable moiré patterns – visual artifacts of camera sensor/display interference.

A remedy for this is to use what amounts to a specialized virtual camera – essentially an interactive 3D scene capable of imitating the desired properties of photography while eliminating distortions like moiré.

An example...

With a real camera:

With virtual camera (using the online tool: Screenstab):

Until next time.

– Mikael Åsbjørnsson-Stensland