Moiré of the pattern overlaying itself

The pattern of the logo creates a surprising visual appearence of motion when it is shown on an LCD^* and the view is scrolled by small fractions of the pattern size.

The effect seen when scrolling the image up and down is a Moiré pattern.
This kind of pattern appears when two regular line patterns overlay.
The two patterns, in this case, are both from the same image:

It's the current screen image over the afterimage of the previous screen state in the brain of the viewer.

The pattern in the logo image is called "Siemens star":

(From forum.luminous-landscape.com)

Now, let's see how it looks when adding a 50% transparent layer with the same image, and shifting it down by some pixels:

Shifted down by 3 pixels:

Shifted down by 10 pixels:

Why pulsating?

Notice how the moire pattern has a different size - it gets larger for more offset. This explains the pulsating effect you can see while scrolling: The scrolling is not using equal steps, so the offset varies a little.

_{* The effect does not depend on using an LCD. It should occurr very similar on any display based on a physical pixel matrix. On CRT displays, the effect may be harder to observe. One reason is that the artifacts of the CRT display concept are such that they may interfere easily here. Also, an important difference between CRT and LCD is that a CRT represents a pixel usually a little too unsharp, compared to an ideal image, while an LCD typically shows pixels too sharp (!) - sharper than they should ideally be. As the Siemens star pattern is making explicit use of the upper limits of the display resolution, the difference has a strong influence.}