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Language:enStatus: Standard
Term: countouring
Synonym1: posterisation
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Definition: an effect occurring in digital television images, resulting from the use of an insufficient number of quantizing levels to convey the original analogue signal

NOTE – Contouring is the term used when the effects are unwanted, whereas the term posterisation is used when the technique is used to provide special effects.


Publication date:1997-03
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