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unusual facts about Texture


Texture

Texture mapping, bitmap image applied to a surface in computer graphics


Albert Renger-Patzsch

Like Edward Weston in the United States, Renger-Patzsch believed that the value of photography was in its ability to reproduce the texture of reality, and to represent the essence of an object.

Amygdaloid

Amygdule, a mineral filled vesicle in volcanic rock, amygdaloidal texture

Aquifer

The McMurray Formation in the Athabaska oil sands in northern Alberta, consists of "sandstone and shale deposited in a transgressive geological sequence", resulting in the "course grained texture of the basal deposits".

Baby-led weaning

Initial self-feeding attempts often result in very little food ingested as the baby explores textures and tastes through play, but the baby will soon start to swallow and digest what is offered.

Bernhard Heiden

Heiden's music is described by Nicolas Slonimsky, another composer, as "neoclassical in its formal structure, and strongly polyphonic in texture; it is distinguished also by its impeccable formal balance and effective instrumentation."

Buttercream

Butter provides a more delicate texture and superior flavor and mouthfeel (texture) when compared to vegetable shortening.

Chris Ashley

Chris Ashley is an artist who creates his work through the use of coding with simple instruction to create shapes, add colors and texture to his paintings.

Chris Hecker

The initial series was the first complete synthesis of perspectively-correct texture mapping, and formed the mathematical basis for many important game rasterizers, including Michael Abrash's seminal rasterizer for the landmark 3D title Quake.

Confiture de lait

The taste is very similar to that of the soft caramels used to coat apples during Halloween in the United States, but the texture is much softer than that of caramel candies.

Coolea Cheese

Coolea is a type of cow's milk cheese that consists of a smooth, Gouda-like texture with rich, sweet, caramelly flavours.

Danger Hiptop

Dwyane Wade — White and gold with a basketball texture; released February 1, 2007 to coincide with the NBA All-Star Game of February 17, 2007

Ed Kerns

"Hyper Texture: Fabian Marcaccio, David Reed, Pia Fries, Ed Kerns, and Roy Lerner," The Florence Lynch Gallery, New York, NY curated by Lee Klein

Eyebrow restoration

The article explained how transplant surgeon Asim Shahmalak had removed a narrow strip of hair from the back of her head, from an area that was a close match for the colour and texture of the brows.

Freeze-drying

However, in the case of food, or objects with formerly-living cells, large ice crystals will break the cell walls (a problem discovered, and solved, by Clarence Birdseye), resulting in the destruction of more cells, which can result in increasingly poor texture and nutritive content.

Gerard ter Borch

He is known for his rendering of texture in draperies, for example in The Letter and in The Gallant Conversation, engraved by Johann Georg Wille.

Herc

The two use a high-priced listening device concealed within a tennis ball to gain information then, after the device is damaged, fabricate a confidential informant named "Fuzzy Dunlop" (an inside joke between them referencing the tennis ball's texture and manufacturer) and take payments meant for the informant to cover its cost.

Howard Frazin

Frazin's oratorio, The Voice of Isaac, commissioned by PALS Children's Chorus, was premiered at Boston's Jordan Hall in March 2003 and praised by the Boston Globe as "...clear in design and Brittenesque in texture...ingeniously scored...(having an) almost unbearable poignancy."

Hussein, An Entertainment

After its reprint, David Sexton wrote in the Evening Standard, Here fully thirty years before Master and Commander was published is the unmistakable texture of O'Brian's historical fiction.

Ivo Malec

Malec's approach to composition which in ways is similar to that of Denis Dufour or Xenakis is the emphasis on all aspects of sound including texture, density, movement, timbre and notably sonic character and form and the use of sound objects.

Jamie Dalglish

Dalglish's morphoglyphs have been indicated by the art writer Lee Klein as being along with the works of Jackson Pollock and David Reed part of the trans-filmic lead into the art of Hyper-texture.

Kettle corn

These formulations can have the sweet-salty flavor of kettle corn but not the same texture, which normally comes from the crunchy sugar crust of kettle corn made from scratch.

Kogel mogel

It has been postulated that the name of the number Googol, coined by the 9 year old nephew of Edward Kasner of Jewish origin, originates with the thick texture of Gogle Mogle.

KPovModeler

The users needed to type commands in the raw POV-Ray to implement a non-standard texture or finish.

Loves Me Like a Rock

These vocals add a different texture to the song as compared to many of his previous solo recordings ("Mother and Child Reunion", "Kodachrome") and his duets with his frequent collaborator, Art Garfunkel, as the pop duo Simon & Garfunkel ("The Sounds of Silence", "Mrs. Robinson").

Mämmi

Finnish packaging still prints birch bark-like texture on the carton boxes.

María Martha Serra Lima

Known for her contralto vocal texture and her repertoire of love ballads and boleros, she collaborated extensively with singer-songwriters from elsewhere in Latin America, particularly Mexican standards such as Los Panchos and Armando Manzanero; among her best-known, non-Hispanic interpretations is that of Paul Anka's My Way.

Marianne Aulie

One of her techniques is to bathe her works in Champagne in order to get a particular texture from having the alcohol react with the acrylic paint.

Open texture

Open texture is a term in the philosophy of Friedrich Waismann, first introduced in his paper Verifiability to refer to the universal possibility of vagueness in empirical statements.

Perideridia

The nutlike roots of the plant are crunchy and mildly sweet, and resemble in texture and flavor water chestnuts.

Pome

Some pomes may have a mealy texture (e.g., some apples); others (e.g., Amelanchier, Aronia) are berry-like with juicy flesh and a core that is not very noticeable.

Pot-au-feu

If the stew is allowed to cool, the broth may turn into a jelly, resulting in an interesting texture.

Pound cake

For example, Eliza Leslie who wrote the 1851 edition of Direction for Cookery used 10 eggs and beat them as light as possible and mixed them with a pound of flour then adding the juice of two lemons or three large oranges, which changed the flavor and texture of the cake.

Punkte

#The sound texture is perforated by rests, sounding like Morse code

Quake Army Knife

At this point it was renamed to QuArK, which stands for "Quake Army Knife", named so in reference to the game engine series it supported, the Quake engines, and for Swiss Army knife, because it could not only edit maps, but included a model editor and texture browser as well.

Russula integra

In Romanian, the mushroom is called pâinişoară ("little bread") due to its edibility and perceived taste and texture.

Saint-Félicien cheese

The cheese is a close cousin of another dauphinois cheese, Saint-Marcellin, and bears a similar texture and taste, though it can be almost twice as large in diameter.

Sarará

While the emphasis on fair skin in Brazil is not as visible as in other post-colonial societies, with many preferring and advocating the moreno or olive skin beauty type, European facial features and hair texture are a beauty standard in Brazil, and many people of diverse backgrounds use flat irons and chemical hair treatments to pass their hair as straight or wavy.

Scotch broth

Cabbage and leeks are often added shortly before serving to preserve their texture, colour and flavours.

SCP – Containment Breach

Gaming website Rock, Paper, Shotgun said "It’s Warehouse 13 without the quips and the quirks but with a lot more panic, screaming and hiding from creatures made of teeth and wire" adding that "it has a fairly weak model and texture at the moment but hopefully it’ll turn into a massive collaboration".

Seersucker

The word came into English from Hindustani (Urdu and Hindi), and originates from the words "kheer aur shakkar", literally meaning "rice pudding and sugar", probably from the resemblance of its smooth and rough stripes to the smooth texture of milk and the bumpy texture of sugar.

Signify

Richard Barbieri - synthesisers, Hammond organ, Prophet V/System 700 electronics, piano, tapes, texture, sequencers

Songs of Moors and Misty Fields

The album contains some of Empyrium's longest tracks (e.g. Track 3), presenting a more epic-like musical texture.

Texture gradient

In 2000, a paper about the texture gradient equation, wavelets, and shape from texture was released by Maureen Clerc and Stéphane Mallat.

Uloborus plumipes

The fine fibres produced are combined by comblike bristles on the hind legs into slender silk threads with a fuzzy texture that are able to trap prey without the use of glue.

Unsaponifiable

Unsaponifiables can be beneficial to a soap formula, because they may have properties such as moisturization, conditioning, vitamins, texture, etc.

USS Cooper: Return to Ormoc Bay

A model of the ship was created using Maya software, and was given motion, lighting and texture to bring it to life.

Versatile Toroidal Facility

VTF may also refer to Valve Texture Format (.vtf) files used in the Source SDK.


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