“You can think of texture as shape at a fine scale,” Kriegeskorte said. That fine scale is easier for the system to latch on to: The number of pixels with texture information far exceeds the number of ...

Artificial whiskers that mimic the way rats and seals sense their prey might one day let planetary rovers or uncrewed submarines explore the shape and texture of strange objects they encounter on ...

Yet in the skilled hands of photographer Russell Hart, the medium’s signature characteristics are not used for ersatz creativity, but as subtle tools to explore a haunting world of textures ...