Towards an order system for visual texture

CAIVANO, JOSE LUIS

Languages of Design

Elsevier

Lugar: Amsterdam; Año: 1994 vol. 2 p. 59 - 84

0927-3034

Texture is an element of visual perception whose systematic study has generally been neglected in the field of design. In this domain, rough classifications of textures and very limited variables for their analysis canhardly be found. This paper defines a subtler and more complete set of variables to analyze simple textures, as well as to control their combination to obtain any degree of complexity. These variables aim at describing textures, allowing also for a numerical notation which is a useful tool to easily transmit information about textures without drawing them (for instance, in the interaction with computer graphics). As a consequence, a thorough classification of textures is derived, and one can conceive an order system of textures, as color systems have been proposed for the organization of colors.