colour banding

Colour banding is a problem of inaccurate colour presentation in computer graphics.

For a fossil of this age the preservation is remarkable, because the original colour banding is preserved, showing as broad, V-shaped patterns.

These low Gothic characteristics suited Hosking's purpose well, though he added a flourish of colour banding to the steeple - a Victorian fashion.

Colour banding is more present with relatively low bits per pixel (BPP) at 16–256 colours (4–8 BPP), where not every shade can be shown because there aren't enough bits to represent them.