Artifact (error)

Diffraction spikes and the Airy disk are optical artifacts caused by the diffraction of light through the aperture of an optical system.

In natural science and signal processing, an artifact or artefact is any error in the perception or representation of any information introduced by the involved equipment or techniques.

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