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Posterization

Posterization or posterisation of an image is the conversion of a continuous gradation of tone to several regions of fewer tones, causing abrupt changes from one tone to another. This was originally done with photographic processes to create posters. It can now be done photographically or with digital image processing, and may be deliberate or an…

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Video posterization

Visual effectNumber of framesVideoPulldownPersistence of vision
13 related topics

Cause

Image editingBandingColor depthFixed pixel displaysCompression
9 related topics

Applications

Contour linesLine art
2 related topics

Photographic process

ThresholdingColor segmentation
2 related topics

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Photographic process

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Video posterization

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Posterization

Nodes35
Edges34
Triples29
Avg. degree1.94
Density0.057143
Components1

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Posterization

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related to Cause · 10
Posterization → Additionally, As, For, JPEG, LCD, Mach, The, This, Unwanted, When
related to Video posterization · 7
Posterization → An, GIF, More, Temporal, The, This, Unlike
has application · 4
Posterization → As, JPEG, This, Typically
related to External links · 3
Posterization → Media, Wikimedia Commons, Wiktionary-logo-en-v2
related to Photographic process · 3
Posterization → Density, Printing, Separations
is a · 1
Posterization → visual effect of reducing the number of frames of video

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image may color effect also photographic video time motion continuous gradation tone one often tracing done process bit result gradient

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Posterizationis avisual effect of reducing the number of frames of video0.90text
JPEG can also result in posterization when a smooth gradient of colour or luminosity is compressed into discrete quantized blocks with stepped gradientsinstance ofcompression in image formats0.80text
Posterizationhas applicationTypically0.60section
Posterizationhas applicationThis0.60section
Posterizationhas applicationAs0.60section
Posterizationhas applicationJPEG0.60section
Posterizationrelated to CauseThe0.60section
Posterizationrelated to CauseFor0.60section
Posterizationrelated to CauseUnwanted0.60section
Posterizationrelated to CauseAs0.60section
Posterizationrelated to CauseWhen0.60section
Posterizationrelated to CauseLCD0.60section

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