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Bitmap vs Jaggies - What's the difference?

bitmap | jaggies |

As nouns the difference between bitmap and jaggies

is that bitmap is a series of bits that represents a rasterized graphic , each pixel being represented as a group of bits while jaggies is jagged artifacts in raster graphics, such as those caused by resizing a bitmap image without preserving its aspect ratio.

bitmap

English

Alternative forms

* bit map * bit-map

Noun

(en noun) (Raster graphics)
  • (computing) a series of bits that represents a rasterized graphic image, each pixel being represented as a group of bits

    • Usage notes

    * See notes at pixmap.

    Synonyms

    * pixmap

    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.