Gamers will also feel very much at home with the film's stereoscopic visual texture, a kind of synthetic naturalism, seamlessly folding live action into computer animation and vice versa.

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Its dense texture creates visual interest on a small scale, and it keeps plants moist like mulch would for an outdoor garden.

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"Texture perception might complement visual information in such classification tasks, " he said.

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