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An ideal imaging system (left image) using a discrete (pixel) sampling grid would display the metal edge as sharp dark–bright (e.g. black–white) discrimination between the two neighbouring pixels. However, a real-world pixel-based system (right image) distributes the edge over several neighbouring pixels and shades of grey thereby introducing blur (reduced spatial resolution) in the image. This effect is termed “edge spread function”.
