Digital artifact
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Digital artifact in information science, is any undesired or unintended alteration in data introduced in a digital process by an involved technique and/or technology.
A complicated grid pattern is insufficiently processed by a smartphone camera.
A scan of a drawing with large areas of whitespace; the diamond moiré pattern is a scanning artifact.
Visual artifact
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Visual artifacts are anomalies apparent during visual representation as in digital graphics and other forms of imagery, especially photography and microscopy.
Digital artifact
…In information science, digital artifacts result from: Hardware malfunction: In computer graphics, visual artifacts may be generated whenever a hardware component such as the processor, memory chip, cabling malfunctions, etc., corrupts data. Examples of malfunctions…
A retinography. The gray spot in the center is a shadow artifact.
Circular artifacts caused by backscatter from raindrops
Confocal laser scanning fluorescence micrograph of thale cress anther (part of stamen). The picture shows among other things a nice red flowing collar-like structure just below the anther. However, an intact thale cress stamen does not have such collar, this is a fixation artifact: the stamen has been cut below the picture frame, and epidermis (upper layer of cells) of stamen stalk has peeled off, forming a non-characteristic structure. Photo: Heiti Paves from
Cellulose contamination, in H&E stain and polarized light