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Jaggies vs Antialiasing - What's the difference?

jaggies | antialiasing |

As nouns the difference between jaggies and antialiasing

is that jaggies is jagged artifacts in raster graphics, such as those caused by resizing a bitmap image without preserving its aspect ratio while antialiasing is any technique that reduces the appearance of jagged edges in digital images caused by high-contrast borders between pixels.

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.

    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)