Screen tearing is a visual artifact in video display where a display device shows information from multiple frames in a single screen draw.
A typical video tearing artifact (simulated image)
Visual artifacts are anomalies apparent during visual representation as in digital graphics and other forms of imagery, especially photography and microscopy.
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