Artifact

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Artifact (American English) or artefact (British English) 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
  • In the scrum software project management framework, documentation used for managing 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

  • Artifact (film), a 2012 documentary film directed by Jared Leto under the pseudonym of Bartholomew Cubbins
  • Artifacts (film), a 2007 horror film
  • The Artifact (Eureka)
    , a fictional object appearing in the TV series Eureka

Games

  • Artifact (video game), a 2018 digital collectible card game by Valve
  • Artifact (Magic: The Gathering)
    , a card type in the trading card game Magic: The Gathering

Music

Other media

  • Artifact (ballet)
    , 1984 ballet by William Forsythe
  • Artifact, a 1985 science fiction novel by Gregory Benford

Other uses

  • Artifacting
    , a technique used on some older computers to generate color in monochrome modes by exploiting artifacts of analog television systems
  • Learning artifact (education), an object created by students during the course of instruction
  • A relic, an object left behind by a prophet or other important religious figure

See also