What is "texel"

n. (context computer graphics English) An image representing the smallest unit of a texture that may be repeated to tile a region of the display.

Texel is a municipality and an island with a population of 13,641 in the province of North Holland in the Netherlands. It is the largest and most populated island of the West Frisian Islands in the Wadden Sea. The island is situated north of Den Helder, northeast of Noorderhaaks, also known as "Razende Bol" and southwest of Vlieland.

A texel, texture element, or texture pixel is the fundamental unit of a texture map, used in computer graphics. Textures are represented by arrays of texels representing the texture space, just as other images are represented by arrays of pixels.

Texels can also be described by image regions that are obtained through a simple procedure such as thresholding. Voronoi tesselation can be used to define their spatial relationships. This means that a division is made at the half-way point between the centroid of each texel and the centroids of every surrounding texel for the entire texture. The result is that each texel centroid will have a Voronoi polygon surrounding it. This polygon region consists of all points that are closer to its texel centroid than any other centroid.

Texel is an island and municipality of the Netherlands.

Texel may also refer to:

• Texel (sheep), a breed of sheep originally from Texel
• Texel (graphics), texture element or texture pixel, the unit of texture space used in computer graphics
• Texel (guinea pig), a variety of guinea pig