Texture

Texture is the 3 dimension structure of a surface. It describes the relative smoothness or roughness of a surface. Also it can describe the characteristic surface quality of a familiar material. Texture can be rough, bumpy, slick, scratchy, smooth, silky, soft, prickly, the list is endless. There are 2 basic types of texture. Textile texture, that is real and can be feel by touch; and visual texture that its seen by the eye and it may be illusionary or real. It describes the relative smoothness or roughness of a surface. Also it can describe the characteristic surface quality of a familiar material. The relative scale of a texture can affect the apparent shape and position of a plane in space: Textures can accentuate a plane length or width. Coarse textures can make a plane appear closer, reduce its scale and increase its visual width. In general texture tends to visually fill the space in witch they exist. An artist who is trying to create the illusion of space sharply defines texture in the foreground and paints less defined and softened textures in the background. The importance is that it can help create different spaces and places, texture helps bring an extra something to architecture and urban planning. They can help create a better developed space and also create different atmospheres.
 * Definition of texture
 * Types of texture
 * What is it that texture describes of an object?
 * How can texture influence the characteristics of a space?
 * What is the importance of texture in architecture /Urban Planning?