**NearestNeighborFiltering** ([edit](http://github.com/nicebyte/wiki/edit/master/Wiki/NearestNeighborFiltering.md)) *Nearest-neighbor filtering* is the simplest and fastest form of TextureFiltering. The texel coordinates produced as part of the TexturePipeline have a fractional part, the nearst-neighbor filter ignores it, rounding the coordinates to the nearest integer and reading from the texture at the resulting integer coords. The result of magnification with this filter appears blocky and crisp, which might actually be desireable in certain cases. On the other hand, nearest-neighbor filtering is almost never what one would use for minification. During minification, many elements of the source texture (texels) affect the sampling result, yet the nearest-neigbor filter throws away all of them except just one, which results in aliasing / shimmering.   Categories: ComputerGraphics, TextureMapping, TextureFiltering, ImageProcessing