Texture gradient

Texture gradient is the distortion in size which closer objects have compared to objects farther away. It also involves groups of objects appearing denser as they move farther away. Additionally, it could be explained by noticing a certain amount of detail depending on how close something is, giving a sense of depth perception. There are three main forms of texture gradient: density, perspective, and distortion of texture elements.

Gustave Caillebotte. Paris Street, Rainy Day, 1877, Art Institute of Chicago

Texture gradient is carefully used in the painting Paris Street, Rainy Day by Gustave Caillebotte.^[1]

Texture gradient was used in a study of child psychology in 1976^[2] and studied by Sidney Weinstein in 1957.^[3]

In 2000, a paper about the texture gradient equation, wavelets, and shape from texture was released by Maureen Clerc and Stéphane Mallat.^[4]

See also

• Texture (visual arts)
• Image gradient
• Perspective distortion

References

1. Krantz, John H. "Vision and Art: Texture Gradient". Hanover College. from the original on 2017-07-20.
2. Degelman, Douglas; Rosinski, Richard R (April 1976). (PDF). Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 21 (2): 339–348. doi:10.1016/0022-0965(76)90047-3. PMID 1271009. S2CID 5662223. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-02-23.
3. Weinstein, Sidney (December 1957). "The Perception of Depth in the Absence of Texture-Gradient". The American Journal of Psychology. 70 (4): 611–615. doi:10.2307/1419453. JSTOR 1419453. PMID 13487832.
4. Clerc, Maureen; Mallat, Stéphane (April 2002). "The texture gradient equation for recovering shape from texture". IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. 24 (4): 536–549. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.7.2677. doi:10.1109/34.993560.