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Texture and Pattern
lecture 5B
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Art/Design
Undergraduate 1
03/02/2008

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Term
Texture
Definition
Texture refers to the surface quality of things.  It
makes objects appeal to our sense of touch and sight.
Term
Types of Texture
Definition

Tactile texture


Visual texture (Implied texture)

Term
Tactile Texture
Definition
Our appreciation of the environment comes not only
from visual but tactile perceptionor sense of touch.
Term
Visual Texture
Definition

We experience an illusion or impression of real texture through its visual representation.


Much of how we appreciate visual texture is how we
remember our own haptic experience.

Term
Visual Texture in Art and Design
Definition
Painting (Trompel’oeil technique)
Wood or LinoCut
Printing and Dyeing
Photography
Faux finish
Computerized Collage
Term
Texture and Light
Definition

The shape, depth, contour or color of a texture can be perceived through the way light falls on the surface. 

Term
Texture and Light
Definition

Reflected Light

Refracted Light

Diffused Light

Term
Pattern
Definition
Patterns result from the repetitionof line, shape, size,
color, and value which have predictable rhythmic effect.
Term
Pattern, Repetition, & Rhythm
Definition
While repetition creates structure, rythm gives life and movement to pattern.
Term
Repetition
Definition

- Regular

- Irregular

- Random 

Term
Regular Repetition Structure
Definition

Simple Repeat

Alternate Repeat

Inversion Repeat

Graduation/Progression Repeat 

Term
Repetition Structure in Pattern Design
Definition
Unit forms repeated at regular intervals with an equal amount of space surrounding each of them
Term
Pattern
Definition
A design composed through the repetition of visual elements and attributes within a single composition.
Term
Motif
Definition
The unit that gets repeated
Term
Super Motif
Definition
A single unit that is repeated in four-fold symmetry to form a new combined motif
Term
Counterchange
Definition
The lines of one space form the boundaries of another usually through alternating the color.
Term
Sliding
Definition
each row of structural subdivisions can slide in either horizontal or vertical direction
Term
Change in Direction
Definition
the vertical or horizontal lines or both can be tilted in any direction
Term
Curving or Bending
Definition
the set of vertical or horizontal lines are regularly curved into the same size and shape
Term
[image]
Definition
Scale Pattern
Term
[image]
Definition
Ogee pattern
Term
[image]
Definition
Half drop pattern
Term
[image]
Definition

Triangular Grid

 

the tilting of the direction of the structural lines and then subdividing

Term
Hexagonal Grid
Definition
the combining of adjacent spatial units of a triangular grid
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