Texture (surface attribute)

Texture of old wood

Texture of denim fabric

The texture is a description of the nature of surfaces, originally from the textile industry comes.

Texture of materials

The term is mainly used in the manufacture of building materials and everyday objects , but also in painting . The visual and aesthetic features on the one hand and the haptic properties on the other are of interest here .

Texture elements

Most importantly, the texture is determined by the relief . Grain and reflex-determining features also play an important role. On a higher level, the pattern through geometric repetitions is important. The color is not taken into account in the texture .

Texture adjustment

The texture features already present in materials can be artificially changed by embossing , smoothing, roughening or changing patterns.

Texture in virtual representations

Texture of lava and rocks in a computer game

In the three-dimensional representation in software the texture has an important role to increase the realism.

See also

• Texturing

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1. ↑ Texture . In: Glossary of Image Philosophy
2. ↑ Diploma thesis on the description of cloud textures in virtual representations , accessed on December 31, 2016