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  2. Texture (visual arts) - Wikipedia

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    Paint texture on The Sower with Setting Sun by Vincent van Gogh. In the visual arts, texture refers to the perceived surface quality of a work of art.It is an element found in both two-dimensional and three-dimensional designs, and it is characterized by its visual and physical properties.

  3. Polyphony - Wikipedia

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    Polyphony (/ p ə ˈ l ɪ f ə n i / pə-LIF-ə-nee) is a type of musical texture consisting of two or more simultaneous lines of independent melody, as opposed to a musical texture with just one voice or a texture with one dominant melodic voice accompanied by chords ().

  4. Glossary of music terminology - Wikipedia

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    Slowing down; decelerating; opposite of accelerando ritenuto, riten., rit. Suddenly slower, held back (usually more so but more temporarily than a ritardando, and it may, unlike ritardando, apply to a single note); opposite of accelerato ritmico Rhythmical ritmo Rhythm (e.g. ritmo di # battute meaning a rhythm of # measures) ritornello A ...

  5. Euhedral and anhedral - Wikipedia

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    The opposite is anhedral (also known as xenomorphic or allotriomorphic), which describes rock with a microstructure composed of mineral grains that have no well-formed crystal faces or cross-section shape in thin section. Anhedral crystal growth occurs in a competitive environment with no free space for the formation of crystal faces.

  6. Glossary of computer graphics - Wikipedia

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    Non-linear texture coordinate interpolation that takes into account perspective, eliminating distortion seen in affine texture mapping. Phong lighting A commonly used model of local illumination that computes the result as a sum of ambient, diffuse and specular elements of light. Phong shading Shading technique that uses interpolated normals.

  7. Blend modes - Wikipedia

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    With Screen blend mode, the values of the pixels in the two layers are inverted, multiplied, and then inverted again. The result is the opposite of Multiply: wherever either layer was darker than white, the composite is brighter. (,) = (), where a is the base layer value and b is the top layer value.

  8. Monochrome - Wikipedia

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    The relative absence of hue contrast can be offset by variations in tone and the addition of texture. [ 4 ] Monochromatic in science means consisting of a single wavelength of light or other radiation (lasers, for example, usually produce monochromatic light), or having or appearing to have only one color (in comparison to polychromatic).

  9. List of rock textures - Wikipedia

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