Texture of smooth objects?
11:27 AM, Thursday August 31st 2023
I am super confused about the texture section. It's actual forms right? So what about a smooth ball? I don't see any cast texture shadows on smooth surfaces. If you zoom in with a microscope there will always be texture, but from the perspective we're actually drawing it from it is smooth and no shadows to draw on its surface. He says everything has a texture, and that's true, but scale negates that, doesn't it? I assume we're not trying to draw the stuff we can't actually see. Do we just think of that smooth object as a texture for whatever it is touching and draw its cast shadow? Wouldn't shading on the smooth object help add information its cast shadow doesn't communicate?