staircasing ⇝
jaggies
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/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.
[Jargon File]Last updated: 1997-12-01
Nearby terms:
jadeTeX ♦ JAffer's Canonical ALgebra ♦ jaggies ♦ JaM ♦ jam ♦ James Clark
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