Texture

TEXTURE
Texture is the tridimensional structure of a surface that describe relative smoothness or roughness of the object. It can also be used to describe the characteristics surface qualities of familiar materials.

They are two basic types of texture: - tactile textures, is real and can be felt by touch - visual texture, is seen by the eye. All tactile textures provides visual textures as well, on the other hand visual textures can be real or illusory.

Our senses of sight and touch are closely connected. Scale, distance and light are important modifing factors in the perception of textures and surface, all material have some degrees of textures.

The fine of the scale or the smaller the pattern, the smoother it appear to be, even rougher textures seen from the distance appear to be relatively smooth.

The relative scale of a texture can affect the apparent shape and position of a plane in space.

Textures can accentuate a plane lenght or width and can also make a plane appear closer, reduce it scale and increase their visual weight.

In general, textures tend to visually fill the spaces in which they exist