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Encyclopedia > Texture
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Texture refers to the properties held and sensations caused by the external surface of objects received through the sense of touch. Texture is sometimes used to describe the feel of non-tactile sensations. Texture can also be termed as a pattern that has been scaled down (especially in case of two dimensional non-tactile textures) where the individual elements that go on to make the pattern not distinguishable. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary (a portmanteau of wiki and dictionary) is a multilingual, Web-based project to create a free content dictionary, available in over 150 languages. ... Somatic sensation consists of the various sensory receptors that trigger the experiences labelled as touch or pressure, temperature (warm or cold), pain (including itch and tickle), and the sensations of muscle movement and joint position including posture, movement, and facial expression (collectively also called proprioception). ... Tactition is the sense of pressure perception. ...


Texture may also refer to:

  • [[Texture (painting)],feel of the canvas based on the paint used and its method of application.
  • Texture (music), a way to vaguely describe the overall sound of a piece of music
  • Texture (crystalline), the property of a material's individual crystallites sharing some degree of orientation
  • Texture (geology), refers to the physical appearance or character of a rock, such as grain size, shape, and arrangement, at both the megascopic or microscopic surface feature level.
  • Texture (computer graphics), a bitmap image applied to a surface in computer graphics
  • Soil texture, describes the relative proportion of grain sizes of a soil or any unconsolidated material
  • Texture (food), refers to the way food feels in a person's mouth. Texture, as well as smell and taste, contributes to the overall flavor of the food.
  • Textures (band), a metal band from Netherlands.
  • Character structure, various life experiences resulting in the "texture" of one's character.

Texture is a feel of something . In music texture is the overall quality of sound of a piece, most often indicated by the number of voices in the music and to the relationship between these voices (see below). ... In materials science, texture is the distribution of crystallographic orientations of a sample. ... Texture in geology refers to the physical appearance or character of a rock, such as grain size, shape, and arrangement, at both the megascopic or microscopic surface feature level. ... Texture mapping is a method for adding detail, surface texture, or colour to a computer-generated graphic or 3D model. ... Soil texture triangle, showing the 12 major textural classes, and particle size scales. ... Mouthfeel is a product’s physical and chemical interaction in the mouth. ... Textures is a technical metal band from the Netherlands, formed in 2001. ... A character structure is a constellation of enduring motivational and other traits that are manifested in the characteristic ways that an individual reacts to various kinds of challenges. ...


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Texture (707 words)
Texture is something which we feel when we interact with our surroundings.
Texture can be "felt" with our eyes also.
This is in sharp textural contrast to the smooth image of the baby.
Gamasutra - Features "Understanding and Using OpenGL Texture Objects" [07.23.99] (556 words)
These texture objects have been available for quite some time as extensions to OpenGL 1.0 because of their incredible performance benefits.
Texture objects can improve your textured rendering performance by more than 10 times using the same hardware.
Typically, you load a texture image from either a disk file or a memory resource, or you generate it procedurally.
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