textures

n.

the feel of a surface or a fabric

"the wall had a smooth texture"

the essential quality of something

"the texture of Neapolitan life"

the musical pattern created by parts being played or sung together

"then another melodic line is added to the texture"

the characteristic appearance of a surface having a tactile quality

Textures of Liquid Crystals
In Textures of Liquid Crystals
Synthesizing natural textures
Graphcut textures: image and video synthesis using graph cuts
Textures: A Photographic Album for Artists and Designers by Phil Brodatz (review)
Modeling Textures with Total Variation Minimization and Oscillating Patterns in Image Processing.
Observation of unconventional quantum spin textures in topological insulators.
Neural dynamics of perceptual grouping: Textures, boundaries, and emergent segmentations
Chapter 3 - NEURAL DYNAMICS OF PERCEPTUAL GROUPING: TEXTURES, BOUNDARIES, AND EMERGENT SEGMENTATIONS
Differential sensitivity of human visual cortex to faces, letterstrings, and textures: a functional magnetic resonance imaging study