Computer graphics

:For the ACM SIGGRAPH journal, see Computer Graphics.

Texturing

Polygon surfaces (the sequence of faces) can contain data corresponding to not only a color, but in more advanced software, can be a virtual canvas for a picture, or other rasterized image. Such an image is placed onto a face, or series of faces and is called a Texture.

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Textures add a new degree of customization as to how a faces & polygons will ultimately look after being shaded, depending on the shading method, and how the image is interpreted during shading.

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