| JustBeingReal said:
Image quality is the whole range of things that relates to how a picture looks, that relates to the overall level of detail you're seeing, picture degradation would be a part of that. Perhaps if you were using IQ in a topic like Camera or Film you'd be talking about the level of artifacts in the image or filtering, but when you're talking about a video game or perhaps a movie visual effect, like a CG thing then Image Quality is a fitting term and it works fine in that context. |
Since there is no dictionary definiton that applies to image quality of video games and movies I can't appeal to that. However, I will say that the overwhelming majority of people when speaking of a video game, define image quality as the level of degredation in the image, caused by artifacts and resolution. That is how Digital Foundry uses it, that is how most people on gaming forums use it, and that is how developers use it. Often you see disusssion about the tradeoff between "image quality" and "other graphical features." There a plethora of articles about this. I can't think of a single other time I've seen it refer to all graphical features, as you seem to use it.
