Vignetting

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

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At a glance

Class

Invention

Domain

Science and technology

Knowledge cost

3

In collections

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What Wikipedia says

In photography and optics, vignetting ( vin-YET-ing) is a reduction of an image's brightness or saturation toward the periphery compared to the image center. The word vignette, from the same root as vine, originally referred to a decorative border in a book.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Vignetting”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: Aero Icarus from Zürich, Switzerland, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.