a) Jerkiness of motion associated with presentation rates below the fusion frequency. b) A temporal artifact associated with moving images when the image is sampled at one frame rate and converted to a different frame rate for display. As a result, motion vectors in the display may appear to represent discontinuously varying velocities. The subjective effect of the artifact becomes more obvious when the frame-rate conversions are made by simple deletions or repetitions of selected frames (or fields). It may become less obvious when interpolated frames (or fields) are generated by employing predictive algorithms.