Texture



What is Texture?

 Texture is a visual element that has, in time, optical and tactile qualities. The latter is more remarkable, since the texture is a visual  element that sensitizes and, materially, characterized the surfaces of objects or subjects photographed.

Texture describes the tactile quality of a form. Accurate rendering of an object's texture is the key to very realistic drawing. The textures of some objects can be particularly challenging due to movement (water), fine detail (skin surface and hair, grass, leaves) or their ethereal quality (cloud, glass).

Types of Texture

1D Texture In this case a 3D object is mapped on an space that has a single dimension. This type of texturing is generally used to represent a color gradient on the object.

2D Texture They are the most used textures. They can be square (most common) or rectangular, and may represent a pattern to repeat, like a piece of wall or lawn, or bea complete picture as a picture or a window.

3D Texture They are bitmaps that store color information of each pixel both on the surface of objects as its interior volume, so we can see how the inside of an object if we break or make a hole . Categories of Texture

There are three categories of texture: tactile, visual, and audible.

*Tactile texture is the feel of a material to human touch.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">*Visual texture affects how an object or room looks

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">*Audible texture affects how the object or room sounds



<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff6000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">What is it that texture describes of an object? <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">If we use tact we can dispense with view. Closing our eyes we will be able to describe the qualities of the material it is made. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> If we use only sight and not touch the object, we need to use other resources to describe the texture of the material. We must build on the accumulated experience and knowledge of graphic expression to identify the textures. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Through sight we can perceive qualities such as transparency of objects, brightness, color, size, etc.. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> With tact we can know if it's a rough-textured or smooth, hard or soft, but we can also obtain other information as if the material is hot or cold. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">In the images that we perceive i the landscape, we can find different materials and therefore, different textures.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff6000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">How can texture influence the characteristics of a space? <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Any element or textual material has a quality or produce a perception of this, it is easily appreciated, visually or by touch, in tissues, wood, stone, enamel, porcelain, etc.. The shiny surfaces reflect light, this quality of the textures influence on the heat, the smooth surfaces make the color appear lighter, the rough it make dark. The coarse texture contrast with the smooth. In decoration will be combined each other, so as to harmonize well with the contiguous elements and are suitable to use, yet wouldretain their differences in quality, but without the contrast can create a unpleasantimpression.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff6000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">What is the importance of texture in architecture /Urban Planning?

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">In architecture, <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> texture is reflected with actual building materials such as bricks, concrete, metal, glass and so much more; and then decorated both the exterior and interior so that not always perceives the main structure of the construction <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">In the images that we perceive daily we find and therefore different materials, different textures

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Using texture in architecture creates the feel that all of us need which is to feel belonged and trusted. Using the right material to design is important thus learning and understanding the materials make a difference in design concepts and presentation.



<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">In urban planning, texture helps to create bi and three-dimensional mapping, using methods of texture in photographs, planes, models, ect. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">In geo-photographic modeling, we texture the building's geometric envelopes by using photographic resources. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">These resources are either aerial views or shots taken from the ground. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">The photographer has developed a production line accepting both buildings’ geometry and photographic entries. As a result, texture-mapping is applied on overall buildings by automatically choosing the best texture within the proposed textures. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Right now, the buildings’ envelop needs to be acquired before the texture-mapping process.