In <37260B94.2E2FBAF3@pacbell.net>, on 04/27/99 
   at 12:10 PM, bankspad <ban### [at] pacbellnet> said:


>>
>> Oh - you seem to think the lead is a textural device - while I never thought
>> of that - although NOW it seems obvious. The lead is another cylinder
>> entirely.

>I thought that it was. What I was thinking was that instead of using just
>the graphite pigment for the lead that you combine it with whatever wood
>texture (and parameters ) that was used for the pencil in the texture for
>the cylinder. I slapped together a real basic image, hope you don't mind.  
>;-]

>KB-

>cone { <-1, 0.001, -1>, 0.001, <2, 4, 2>, 1.2
>texture {
>planar
>turbulence 0.4
>texture_map {
> [0.01 T_Wood23 finish { ambient 0.3 } scale 4 rotate z*-40 ]//whatever
>Wood texture you choose
> [0.2 pigment { rgb 0.65 } finish {specular 0.5 roughness 0.15 }]
> }
>translate y*0.6
>}
>}


The only thing I could add is that if you keep it as two
cylinders, add a certain randomness that places the lead
slightly off center, and possibly even the sharpened end.
When was the last time you were able to sharpen a pencil
in a perfectly aligned point?


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