That's what I call inspiration.

Cheers
Steve.

PS: thought I had one of my objects finished, now I've got to go
through the whole lot fixing the textures.



bankspad wrote:
> 
> >
> > 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
> }
> }
> 
>   -----------------------------------------------------------------
>  [Image]

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