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🏳️‍🌈 A stripe pattern 🖥️ Digital color stripes
banding

banding

1 7.3
A visible stripe that appears in smooth color or shade changes on photos and screens
  • noun
  • /ˈbændɪŋ/
  • Specialized
translation icon : banding
  • When editing photographs, I noticed that banding makes the color transitions look awkward and unnatural.
  • horizontal banding

Examples

  • Some of you have written to me that the so-called compatible inkjet cartridges have given you bad results, such as banding on your prints.

    Academic text (2001)

  • At native ISO (100), the damn camera has banding noise in the shadow and limited dynamic range.

    Blog text (20)

  • I am not sure about the mentioned banding issues at even low ISO settings with the 5D Mark III, but there should not be any problems in that area of shooting at all with any of these cameras.

    Blog text (4)

  • If you ran it on a little-endian machine (like Intel), it would compile and run just fine, but there would be very noticeable banding artifacts in the video.

    Blog text (34)

  • It also has other artifacts inherent in all CMOS sensor video cameras, like rolling shutter, jello cam, and banding that can happen under flickering lights.

    Blog text (14)

  • If there is a banding issue at low ISO, that would be more of an issue than shooting at 12800 ISO because at 6400 it's tit for tat.

    Blog text (4)

  • They saw obvious problems with the iPhone images compared to what the really good sensors can do—banding and noise in the shadows, obviously poorer range into highlights, etc.

    Blog text (26)

  • The bright sunset photo was ruined by noticeable banding, making the sky appear striped instead of smooth.

  • Due to the limited color depth of the image, banding was evident in the gradient of the blue sky.

Synonyms

posterization
vsbanding
  • Specialized
8.9

Making an image use only a few colors so areas look flat and separate

is an unintended digital artifact causing smooth gradients to show parallel bands
ribboning
vsbanding
  • Specialized
8.4

Long thin lines that appear on a surface during making or printing and are unwanted

is parallel bands that appear in digital gradients from limited color depth

How Zoned

zonation
  • Specialized
8.5
banding
  • Specialized
1 7.3
uniform
92 3.7

Surface Forms

banding singular
bandings plural

Morphology

banding = band (semi-transparent) = band + ing

The technical sense is based on visible bands in an image, but the specialized imaging explanation is not fully predictable from the base word alone.

Etymology

Banding uses the same idea: band means a 'strip', so when a smooth change of color in a picture breaks into clear strips we call that banding. So banding is the visible parallel stripes you see in images when there are not enough color levels or when the file is compressed.