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Block grid phase

Definition

The horizontal and vertical offset of the 8x8 encoding grid relative to the image coordinate origin. A phase of (0,0) means the grid starts at the top-left pixel. A phase of (3,5) means the grid is shifted 3 pixels right and 5 pixels down. When a pasted region comes from a differently-aligned source, its phase differs from the host image, and that difference is detectable.

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