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Aliasing vs Antialiasing - What's the difference?

aliasing | antialiasing |

As nouns the difference between aliasing and antialiasing

is that aliasing is distortion caused by a low sampling rate, as Moire effect or stair-stepped edges while antialiasing is any technique that reduces the appearance of jagged edges in digital images caused by high-contrast borders between pixels.

As a verb aliasing

is present participle of lang=en.

aliasing

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (signal processing, graphics, sound recording) Distortion caused by a low sampling rate, as Moire effect or stair-stepped edges.

    • Derived terms

    * anti-aliasing

    See also

    * ("aliasing" on Wikipedia)

    antialiasing

    English

    Alternative forms

    * anti-aliasing

    Noun

    (-)
  • (computing) any technique that reduces the appearance of jagged edges in digital images caused by high-contrast borders between pixels.

    • See also

    * (anti-aliasing)