artifacting

[ ahr-tuh-fak-ting ]

noun

1. Digital Technology. the introduction of a visible or audible anomaly during the processing or transmission of digital data:

   Proper encoding will eliminate artifacting and pixilation in the images.

2. the introduction of any feature that is not naturally present but is a product of an extrinsic agent, method, or the like:

   Grainy artifacting in the final print is the result of dirt on the negative that could not be removed.

Word History and Origins

Origin of artifacting¹

First recorded in 2005–10; artifact ( def ) (in sense “to introduce an anomaly in the processing of data”) + -ing ¹( def )

Example Sentences

You can shoot 4K 60fps as long as you want without the phone overheating, but there’s still noticeable artifacting and wonkiness with image stabilization, and the video image processing is weirdly different from how the Pixel processes still images.

From The Verge

It does an okay job overall, minus a small amount of artifacting that cropped up around the subject’s head.

From The Verge

It consistently pulled down excellent 4K HDR streams without any noticeable artifacting or buffering interruptions.

From The Verge

Visceral almost by definition, vernacular video has its own wildly spontaneous visual vocabulary — light smears, hyper kinetic movement, jolting angles, inadvertent “artifacting,” in which the image is distorted when a visible anomaly is introduced.

From New York Times

However, it works as a design choice, as it helps to sell the game as being retro, thanks in part to the VHS video scan lines and artifacting.

From The Verge