The document is a visual essay about texture created by Alli Dryer for Architerials. It explores texture through various mediums like scanography, bump maps, anaglyph images, graphs and diagrams, and magnetic resonance images. Several artists and creators are quoted discussing their interest in texture and how it can be used to depict depth, dimension, and surface feeling to engage the viewer.
The document is a visual essay about texture created by Alli Dryer for Architerials. It explores texture through various mediums like scanography, bump maps, anaglyph images, graphs and diagrams, and magnetic resonance images. Several artists and creators are quoted discussing their interest in texture and how it can be used to depict depth, dimension, and surface feeling to engage the viewer.
The document is a visual essay about texture created by Alli Dryer for Architerials. It explores texture through various mediums like scanography, bump maps, anaglyph images, graphs and diagrams, and magnetic resonance images. Several artists and creators are quoted discussing their interest in texture and how it can be used to depict depth, dimension, and surface feeling to engage the viewer.
A LLI D RYER
ARCHITERIALS T E X T U R E
A VISUAL ESSAY VOCABULARY SCANOGRAPHY
I search for the realness, the real feeling of a subject,
all the texture around it... I always want to see the third dimension of something... I want to come alive with the object. -- Andrew Wyeth BUMP MAPS
Once I’ve got a good structure underneath and put
the tones in the right places, all I have to do is suggest texture thoughtfully... and the viewer’s eye will fill in the rest. -- Gaye Adams ANAGLYPH IMAGES
You can feel surfaces, you can
feel textures, you can feel dynamics and momentum.
- Tom Anderson GRAPHS & DIAGRAMS
The texture at the edge or value
change tells what it is. -- Tony van Hasselt MAGNGETIC
RESONANCE IMAGES
Texture is the most enduring and ubiquitous underpinning of form... certainly a calming, meditative and appealing world for both the eye and mind. -- Lynda Lehmann END NOTES