Look up: Jaggies

1. Jaggies
   (Digital cameras and photo printers) Slang term for the stair-stepped appearance of a curved or angled line in digital imaging. The smaller the pixels, and the greater their number, the less apparent the “jaggies�. Also known as pixelisation.
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2. jaggies
   the stair-step aliasing that appears on diagonal lines. Caused by insufficient filtering, violation of the Nyquist theory, and/or poor interpolation Category: Electrical engineering and energy
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3. Jaggies
   Stair-like lines that appear where there should be smooth straight lines or curves. Jaggies can occur for a variety of reasons, the most common being that the output device (display monitor or printer) does not have enough resolution to portray a smooth line. In addition, jaggies often occur when a ...
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4. jaggies
   (graphics) /jag'eez/ (Or 'staircase') The 'staircase' effect observable when an edge (especially a linear edge of very shallow or steep slope) is rendered on a bitmap display (as opposed to a vector display). The effect is even more pronounced when a bitmap image or text in a bitmap font is enlarge...
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5. Jaggies
   Stair-like lines that appear where there should be smooth straight lines or curves. Jaggies can occur for a variety of reasons, the most common being that the output device (display monitor or printer) does not have enough resolution to portray a smooth line. In addition, jaggies often occur when a bit-mapped image is converted to a dif...
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6. Jaggies
   , and thus the jaggies on the edges of the symbols became more prominent. `"Jaggies"` is the informal name for artifacts in raster images, most frequently from aliasing, which in turn is often caused by non-linear mixing effects producing high-frequency components and/or missing or poor an...
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