What do you call it when a picture of text is illegible in a picture if you zoom in, but more legible without the zoom?
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November 27th, 2016
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Sometimes with pictures zooming in washes out a word you are trying to read. The same word is clearer when the pic is not zoomed in. What’s happening there, mega pixel quality?
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Can’t see the forest for the trees. We read whole words, not letter by letter. Maybe the shape of the word is easier to see with a little distance.
I believe that is the result of trying to zoom/enlarge a low resolution picture. The words are part of the picture thus a blur pic will automatically result in blur words. I don’t think they have a naming for this but I call it “anti-myopiac words/pics” lol.
it is a bit like an impressionism painting by Monet. Up close you get nothing. Stand back and you see the image.
The term for this is pixelization:. The result of enlarging a digital image further than the resolution of the monitor device, usually 72 dpi (dots per inch), causing the individual pixels making up the image to become more prominent, thus causing a grainy appearance in the image.
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