What is Texture

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A general characteristic for a substance or a material. Texture exists all around us. It can be either actual (natural, invented, or manufactured) or simulated (made to look rough, smooth, hard or soft, or like a natural texture). Simulated textures are made to represent real textures such as a smooth arm or rough rock formation. But they are not actual textures, and if you touch the picture you feel only the paint, or the pen or pencil marks. Learn more in: Advances in Describing and Managing Our Environment

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Image of any type used to coat the surface of a virtual object, three-dimensional, or two-dimensional, with a suitable graphics program. Learn more in: Virtual Learning Environments for a New Teaching Methodology

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In Second Life, texture refers to an imported picture file that is mapped to a prim in order to give it appearance eg brick texture on a cube can appear like a wall. Learn more in: Knowledge Transfer and Marketing in Second Life

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An entity consisting of mutually related pixels and a group of pixels having similar properties. Learn more in: Breast Ultrasound Image Processing

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Image property that characterizes number of details in it by analyzing color transition or intensity. Learn more in: Detecting Significant Changes in Image Sequences

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Visual or tactile surface characteristics and appearance of an object. Learn more in: Automated Categorisation of Nailfold Capillaroscopy Images

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The tactile quality of a surface; the characteristic structure of a material; surface quality Learn more in: Thin Screen: The Creation of Depth Perception in Desktop Virtual Reality in Alignment with Human Visual Perception

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It is the nature of a surface defined by the small, local deviations from the perfectly flat ideal. It provides information about the spatial organization of color or brightness patterns in an image or particular region of an image. Learn more in: Applications of Image Compression on Agricultural Image Data Analysis

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In computer graphics field, it refers to a digital image used to modify the appearance of a tridimensional object. The operation that wraps around a texture over an object is called texture mapping. Talking about GPGPU, a texture can be considered as a data stream Learn more in: IA Algorithm Acceleration Using GPUs

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In Halliday and Hasan’s Cohesion in English (1976), “a text has texture, and this is what distinguishes it from something that is not a text. It derives this texture from that fact that it functions as a unity with respect to its environment” (p. 2). The texture of any text is constituted by the five major cohesive ties: those of reference, substitution, ellipsis, conjunction and lexis. Learn more in: The Texture of Inefficiently Self-Regulating ESL Systems

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The surface used to cover the object faces/sides. Learn more in: Virtual Worlds: Places Where You Can Find Your True Talents

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An image that is associated to a 3D model and is generated by 3D scanners that capture color, which forms the surface (“skin”) of the model. Learn more in: A User Study of Virtual Reality for Visualizing Digitized Canadian Cultural Objects