Shaped nonwovens that exhibit high visual resolution

A nonwoven fabric comprising a first surface and a second surface, and at least a first visually discernible zone on at least one of the first surface and the second surface, the first visually discernable zone having a pattern of three-dimensional features, each of the three-dimensional features defining a microzone comprising a first region and a second region, the first and second regions having a difference in values for an intensive property;

• wherein the intensive property is thickness, basis weight, volumetric density, or opacity;
• wherein the first visually discernable zone has a Gray Level Variation of between about 0.1 and about 7.0, according to the Intra-Article Gray Level Variation Method;
• wherein the first visually discernable zone has a Haralick Maximum Mean Contrast Value of between about 90 and about 600, according to the Haralick Maximum Contrast Test Method;
• wherein a standard deviation of an arithmetic mean gray level value measured in each of 16 regions of a 4×4 grid of a calibrated and blurred gray level image of the first visually discernible zone is the Gray Level Variation;
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• wherein a maximum mean value of arithmetic mean contrast values calculated at each of 150 integer pixel distances in each of a 0 degree, 45 degree, 90 degree, and 135 degree direction using a symmetric gray level co-occurrence matrix with 256 gray levels is the Haralick Maximum Mean Contrast Value of the calibrated and blurred gray level image of the first visually discernible zone.

A nonwoven fabric comprising a first surface and a second surface, and at least a first visually discernible zone on at least one of the first surface and the second surface, the first visually discernable zone having a pattern of three-dimensional features, each of the three-dimensional features defining a microzone comprising a first region and a second region, the first and second regions having a difference in values for an intensive property;

• wherein the intensive property is thickness, basis weight, volumetric density, or opacity;
• wherein the first visually discernable zone has a Gray Level Variation of between about 0.1 and about 7.0, according to the Intra-Article Gray Level Variation Method;
• wherein at least one of the microzones has a Gray Level Contrast Slope of between about 11.0 to about 23.9, as measured according to Gray Level Contrast Slope Test Method;
• wherein a standard deviation of an arithmetic mean gray level value measured in each of 16 regions of a 4×4 grid of a calibrated and blurred gray level image of the first visually discernible zone is the Gray Level Variation;
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• wherein the Gray Level Contrast Slope is calculated by dividing (i) an absolute value difference between arithmetic mean gray level values of first and second circular and contiguous regions of interest of equal size within respective first and second regions of a calibrated and blurred gray level image of the first visually discernible zone by (ii) a linear distance between centers of the first and second circular and contiguous regions of interest.