On Jul 29, 2020, at 10:49 AM, SuStel <sustel@trimboli.name> wrote:
The difference between glossy
and shiny is NOT reducible to glossy being about
texture and shiny being about reflection.
I largely agree. Reducing them to those ideas is not appropriare.
However, I cannot deny that if there were two bright and equally reflective objects, one smooth and the other not, I would call only the smooth one “glossy”. Similarly, with two reflective and equally smooth objects, one bright and the other not, I would call only the bright one “shiny”.
For me, the difference in meaning involves texture vs. brightness. They both certainly share other attributes.