Texel vs. Texture: What's the Difference?
Texel and Texture Definitions
Texel
(computer graphics) An image representing the smallest unit of a texture that may be repeated to tile a region of the display.
Texture
A structure of interwoven fibers or other elements.
Texture
The distinctive physical composition or structure of something, especially with respect to the size, shape, and arrangement of its parts
The texture of sandy soil.
The texture of cooked fish.
Texture
The appearance and feel of a surface
The smooth texture of soap.
Texture
A rough or grainy surface quality
Brick walls give a room texture.
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Texture
Distinctive or identifying quality or character
"an intensely meditative poet [who] conveys the religious and cultural texture of time spent in a Benedictine monastery" (New York Times).
Texture
The quality given to a piece of art, literature, or music by the interrelationship of its elements
"The baroque influence in his music is clear here, with the harmonic complexity and texture" (Rachelle Roe).
Texture
To give texture to, especially to impart desirable surface characteristics to
Texture a printing plate by lining and stippling it.
Texture
The feel or shape of a surface or substance; the smoothness, roughness, softness, etc. of something.
The beans had a grainy, gritty texture in her mouth.
Texture
(arts) The quality given to a work of art by the composition and interaction of its parts.
The piece of music had a mainly homophonic texture.
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Texture
(computer graphics) An image applied to a polygon to create the appearance of a surface.
Texture
(obsolete) The act or art of weaving.
Texture
(obsolete) Something woven; a woven fabric; a web.
Texture
A tissue.
Texture
To create or apply a texture.
Drag the trowel through the plaster to texture the wall.
Texture
The act or art of weaving.
Texture
That which woven; a woven fabric; a web.
Others, apart far in the grassy dale,Or roughening waste, their humble texture weave.
Texture
The disposition or connection of threads, filaments, or other slender bodies, interwoven; as, the texture of cloth or of a spider's web.
Texture
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.
Texture
A tissue. See Tissue.
Texture
To form a texture of or with; to interweave.
Texture
The feel of a surface or a fabric;
The wall had a smooth texture
Texture
The essential quality of something;
The texture of Neapolitan life
Texture
The musical pattern created by parts being played or sung together;
Then another melodic line is added to the texture
Texture
The characteristic appearance of a surface having a tactile quality
