You can also paint colors or textures right onto surfaces, and everything's rendered in realistically shaded 3D on the fly, so there's no guesswork about how your creations will look.

CNN: Amorphium offers 3D modeling for the rest of us

That's a result of the decision to eschew conventional museum modes of evoking national or regional or period atmospherics through dramatic changes in wall textures and coloring.

WSJ: The Met's European Reunion

Such a meal also should balance tastes savory, a little sour or bitter maybe, perhaps some sweet and salt and textures, from chewy to succulent to crisp.

NPR: The Art Of Sandwich-Making

Color-blocking remained big, though designers were experimenting with combining blocks of textures or patterns, such as fur with knits at Victoria Beckham and Alexander Wang and herringbone with glen plaid at Thom Browne and Tommy Hilfiger.

WSJ: The Runway Cheat Sheet

Instead of sporting screaming yellow or red blooms, what makes them appealing is the amazing variety of shapes, textures and colors of their leaves.

WSJ: It's Better in the Shade

By contrast an Nvidia graphics processing unit, or GPU, renders graphics by simultaneously hashing out the same problem for multiple pixels: textures, lighting and smooth rendering of shapes flying across the screen.

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