jaggies
nounEtymology From jaggy or jagged + -ie (“diminutive”) + -s (“plural”).
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Computer graphics, Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences Informal Jagged artifacts in raster graphics, such as those caused by resizing a bitmap image without preserving its aspect ratio.
- The anti-alias option in image editors helps to eliminate the jaggies.1999, Brent Heslop, David Angell, Rick Darnell, Microsoft Word 2000 Bible:
- 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.