ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Jaggies

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Jaggies is a noun meaning (computer graphics, informal) Jagged artifacts in raster graphics, such as those caused by resizing a bitmap image without preserving its aspect ratio.

Meaning

(computer graphics, informal) Jagged artifacts in raster graphics, such as those caused by resizing a bitmap image without preserving its aspect ratio.

Example Sentences

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.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include artifacting, antialiasing, pixellation, pixelation, artefacting, tearing.

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