Yet what other way is there to integrate texture effects besides using images of familiar physical materials? Images of physical materials leverages our intuiti

Yet what other way is there to integrate texture effects besides using images of familiar physical materials? Images of physical materials leverages our intuitions of the physical world. How do people acquire their intuitions of the physical world? By interacting with it. Likewise with computers and software. Better to to develop appropriate intuitions based on the thing you're actually using than to rely on increasingly outdated analogs.