ALL meanings of jaggies
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J j - noun jaggies aliasing. 1
- noun Definition of jaggies in Technology (graphics) /jag'eez/ (Or "staircase") The "staircase" effect observable when an edge (especially a linear edge of very shallow or steep slope) is rendered on a bitmap display (as opposed to a vector display). The effect is even more pronounced when a bitmap image or text in a bitmap font is enlarged. Outline fonts and anti-aliasing are two techniques used to solve this problem with text. 1
- noun jaggies (Informal) (computer graphics) Jagged artifacts in raster graphics, such as those caused by resizing a bitmap image without preserving its aspect ratio. 0