Color Banding
Color banding is a common compression artifact in digital video, appearing as band-shaped color blocks in smooth gradient areas. It results from insufficient bit depth or excessive compression.
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Banding refers to gradients that should be smooth at low color depth being cut into distinguishable step discontinuities, and its cause is the quantization of the color space.
Low-contrast gradient areas such as SSAO, volumetric fog, and large-area soft shadows are the most likely to expose banding and are the priority targets for dither post-processing.
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Banding refers to gradients that should be smooth at low color depth being cut into distinguishable step discontinuities, and its cause is the quantization of the color space.
50%UnverifiedLow-contrast gradient areas such as SSAO, volumetric fog, and large-area soft shadows are the most likely to expose banding and are the priority targets for dither post-processing.
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