Visual Texture (18)

Visual Texture: the impression of texture is purely visual. This means it cannot be felt or enjoyed by the sense of touch. This visual texture is created by our eyes.

Here are some examples.



I used the top two pictures in my other blog for tactile texture. The reason I am using these same pictures is to establish the difference between visual and tactile texture. Instead being in the present to experience tactile texture, we can look at pictures of tactile texture. This "looking at pictures" is called visual texture. In the above picture, our eyes see the different values created by light so as to show a texture our eyes can almost feel.


Our eyes see the texture of the tree and help us to imagine how it would feel against our hands. We see the shadows light has created in order define the texture our eyes see.