texture
NounOpen English WordNet
Noun (5)textures
- the feel of a surface or a fabric“the wall had a smooth texture”Type of tactile property, feelKinds smoothness, roughness, napAttribute of coarse, fine
- the essential quality of something“the texture of Neapolitan life”Type of quality, character
- the musical pattern created by parts being played or sung together“then another melodic line is added to the texture”Type of musicality, musicalness
- the characteristic appearance of a surface having a tactile qualityType of visual propertyKinds marbleization, grain
- the physical composition of something (especially with respect to the size and shape of the small constituents of a substance)“breadfruit has the same texture as bread”“sand of a fine grain”“fish with a delicate flavor and texture”“a stone of coarse grain”Synonyms: grainType of constitution, compositionKinds sandiness
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Translations
Noun feel or shape of a surface or substance
Noun computer graphics
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: L. textura, fr. texere, textum, to weave: cf. F. texture. See Text.
1. The act or art of weaving. rare Sir Thomas Browne
2. That which woven; a woven fabric; a web. John Milton
Others, apart far in the grassy dale, Or roughening waste, their humble texture weave.— James Thomson
3. The disposition or connection of threads, filaments, or other slender bodies, interwoven; as, the texture of cloth or of a spider's web.
4. The disposition of the several parts of any body in connection with each other, or the manner in which the constituent parts are united; structure; as, the texture of earthy substances or minerals; the texture of a plant or a bone; the texture of paper; a loose or compact texture.
5. Biology A tissue. See Tissue.
To form a texture of or with; to interweave. rare
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
<graphics> A measure of the variation of the intensity of a surface, quantifying properties such as smoothness, coarseness and regularity. It's often used as a region descriptor in image analysis and computer vision.
The three principal approaches used to describe texture are statistical, structural and spectral. Statistical techniques characterise texture by the statistical properties of the grey levels of the points comprising a surface. Typically, these properties are computed from the grey level histogram or grey level cooccurrence matrix of the surface.
Structural techniques characterise texture as being composed of simple primitives called "texels" (texture elements), that are regularly arranged on a surface according to some rules. These rules are formally defined by grammars of various types.
Spectral techiques are based on properties of the Fourier spectrum and describe global periodicity of the grey levels of a surface by identifying high energy peaks in the spectrum.
(1995-05-11)