Real Pencil

The "lead" inside is not lead at all but graphite, a soft gray form of carbon, mixed with clay and baked into a thin stick.

Playground How to play Credits

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Shelf: Photoreal
Kind: Capture
Sound: Yes
Licenses: CC BY 2.0, MIT, BSD

How to play

Tap it to spin it on the desk. Pick its color under Look in the Splash tab.

About it

A wooden pencil. The "lead" inside is not lead at all but graphite, a soft gray form of carbon, mixed with clay and baked into a thin stick. More clay makes a harder, lighter line and less clay a softer, darker one; the letters on a pencil tell which: H for hard and B for black, with HB in between.

Tap it to flick it: it spins flat on the desk about its middle for two whole turns and slows to a stop where it began. Under Look in the Splash tab, pick yellow, red, blue, green, black, plain wood or the original scan.

Sources and credits

Work	By	License
Kleiner BleistiftMade into 3D Gaussian splats from this one photo with the TRELLIS image-to-3D model (MIT), recentered and scaled. Painted as a classic yellow pencil (yellow body, silver ferrule, pink eraser, a plain HB mark) over the scan's own shading; other colors, plain wood and the bare scan are in Look.	Tim Reckmann	CC BY 2.0

Libraries

MIT, BSD: WebP codec (splat-transform, with libwebp)

Share it

This link opens it in the Playground. To put it on your own page, add the element and one script tag. Every option.

https://splashery.app/play/?toy=pencil-real

<script type="module" src="https://splashery.app/play/src/element.js"></script>
<splashery-toy toy="pencil-real"></splashery-toy>