Previews the look of textures and other surface attributes.
The Texture Preview is for learning how texures and other attributes interact only as the settings are not saved to any selected faces.
A cube and sphere may be quickly rendered to show the effect of color, smoothing and texture settings. The cube is larger than the sphere so textures will appear at a smaller scale when previewed on the cube.
The Texture Scale slider changes the size of the Texture Axes relative to the sphere or cube.