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jaggies

Definitions

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

Etymologies

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jaggy or jagged with diminutive -ie and plural -s.

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Examples

  • The video output from budget-level players can often suffer from jagged edges (aka jaggies), but with the BDP-S360 we experienced no such problems.

    PC Advisor News 2010

  • The video output from budget-level players can often suffer from jagged edges (aka jaggies), but with the BDP-S360 we experienced no such problems.

    PC Advisor News 2010

  • BCC DV Fixer - soften or remove diagonal stair-step lines (aka jaggies) from a clip captured with a lower-quality camera.

    Creative COW News 2009

  • Hopefully anyone else with this problem will google "jaggies" or whatnot!

    VideoHelp.com Forum 2010

  • The detail portions of the disc were absolutely gorgeous, and the player passed through all of the "jaggies" tests with flying colors.

    Big Picture Big Sound - Home Theater, HDTV, Movie Reviews 2010

  • This also removes the 'jaggies' during the video signal deinterlacing process, resulting in smooth progressive-scan video images.

    HDTV Magazine 2010

  • Once again, the PS3 build was demoed and continues to be plagued with texture "jaggies" common of Unreal Engine games on the platform.

    Joystiq 2010

  • Hopefully anyone else with this problem will google "jaggies" or whatnot!

    VideoHelp.com Forum 2010

  • Given the TV has the THX stamp of approval it did indeed perform well with our HD synthetic image tests, acing all of them bar noise levels, which means it will clean up most image artefacts like judder and "jaggies" but noisy content won't be gussied up.

    CNET Australia 2010

  • This also removes the 'jaggies' during the video signal deinterlacing process, resulting in smooth progressive-scan video images.

    Engadget HD 2010

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  • bilby commented on the word jaggies

    Scotland - nickname of Inverness Caledonian Thistle Football Club.

    December 9, 2007