The specific compression-related artifact present when you notice blocky or pixelated areas in smooth gradients is called color banding, often simply referred to as banding. This artifact occurs because the video compression process uses an insufficient number of distinct colors to accurately represent a continuous range of shades or hues within a gradient. During compression, especially lossy compression, the number of bits allocated to describe the color information for each pixel, known as bit ....
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