>Wow, this is definetly incredible. The first, and I feel the most
important,
>thank you for giving proper credit where credit is due, i.e. those whose
works
>allowed you to accomplish this work. Your idea for lettering on the pencils
>would be a great addition - I'm wondering about including "wear" and "use"
for
>the erasers - you know, where the eraser is worn away and has sublte
graphite
>smears.

Both can be accomplished by varying the length of the eraser (although this
makes for perfectly even wear I guess ), and altering the eraser texture.
for uneven wear, maybe truncating with a slightly angled, slowly changing,
very smooth heightfield?

I would also think that adding a variation to the normal for the paint
texture would be a good idea, as most pencils I have are beat up. Heck -
most have teeth marks :)

>My second suggestion may be a bit nit-picky but not meant to be: Where
>the lead and wood meet is never so cleanly clipped - at least never has it
been
>for the some-odd-millions of pencil I've chewed through in life.

Yeah - this bothered me as well. Not 100% sure how to do this though, unless
one makes the shear_cone and slightly wavering mesh?

>My third
>suggestion: The ability to vary the sharpness/dullness of the lead tip.

Yes - this occured to me as well, and should not be hard, just truncate the
lead point, and cap it with a sphere. In fact you could have a %age rounding
variable.

>Based on
>the resulting image, your macro seems a very nice (and useful) piece of
work, I
>can't wait to try it out when you're ready to share.    ;-]
>


Thanks :)

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