Artifact

Artifact, or artefact, may refer to:

Science and technology

  • Artifact (error), misleading or confusing alteration in data or observation, commonly in experimental science, resulting from flaws in technique or equipment
    • Compression artifact, a loss of clarity caused by the data compression of an image, audio, or video
    • Digital artifact, any undesired alteration in data introduced during its digital processing
    • Visual artifact, anomalies during visual representation of digital graphics and imagery
  • Iatrogenic artifact, a medical problem created by medical treatment
  • In the scrum project management framework for software development, artifact refers to documentation used for managing work in the project

Archaeology

  • Artifact (archaeology), an object formed by humans, particularly one of interest to archaeologists
  • Cultural artifact, in the social sciences, anything created by humans which gives information about the culture of its creator and users
  • The Artefact (journal), published annually by the Archaeological and Anthropological Society of Victoria

Computing

Arts and media

Film and television

Games

Music

Other media

Other uses

  • Learning artifact (education), an object created by students during the course of instruction
  • Artifacting, a technique used on some older computers to generate color in monochrome modes by exploiting artifacts of analog television systems

See also

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