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Artifact vs Jaggies - What's the difference?

artifact | jaggies |

As nouns the difference between artifact and jaggies

is that artifact is an object made or shaped by human hand while jaggies is (computer graphics|informal) jagged]] artifacts in raster graphics, such as those caused by [[resize|resizing a bitmap image without preserving its aspect ratio.

artifact

English

Alternative forms

* artefact

Noun

(en noun)
  • An object made or shaped by human hand.
  • (archaeology) An object, such as a tool, weapon or ornament, of archaeological or historical interest, especially such an object found at an archaeological excavation.
    • The dig produced many Roman artifacts .
  • Something viewed as a product of human conception or agency rather than an inherent element.
  • * "The very act of looking at a naked model was an artifact of male supremacy" (Philip Weiss).
  • A structure or finding in an experiment or investigation that is not a true feature of the object under observation, but is a result of external action, the test arrangement, or an experimental error.
    • The spot on his lung turned out to be an artifact of the X-ray process.
  • An object made or shaped by some agent or intelligence, not necessarily of direct human origin.
  • (computing) A perceptible distortion that appears in a digital image, audio or video file as a result of applying a lossy compression algorithm.
    • This JPEG image has been so highly compressed that it has too many unsightly compression artifacts , making it unsuitable for the cover of our magazine.

    References

    * * "artefact" is the preferred spelling in Australia’s Macquarie Dictionary'', with ''artifact listed as a variant. * "artifact" is preferred by the Oxford English Dictionary and most American dictionaries.

    jaggies

    English

    (wikipedia jaggies)

    Noun

    (en-plural noun)
  • (computer graphics, informal) Jagged]] artifacts in raster graphics, such as those caused by [[resize, resizing a bitmap image without preserving its aspect ratio.
  • * 1999 , Brent Heslop, David Angell, Rick Darnell, Microsoft Word 2000 Bible
    • The anti-alias option in image editors helps to eliminate the jaggies .
  • * 2007 , Pulli et al'', ''Mobile 3D Graphics: With OpenGL ES and M3G
    • Edge antialiasing only works at the edges of primitives, but jaggies can happen also at intersections of polygons.