Splashery
Real Pencil, a still.
True size19cm long7.5 in
Photoreal · Capture

Real Pencil

No. 147 of 374, smallest first
A typical one: new wooden pencil, about 19 cm

PlaygroundPull back from here

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.

Shelf
Photoreal
Kind
Capture
Sound
Yes
Licenses
CC BY 2.0, MIT, BSD
Real Pencil at its real size

Life size. This real pencil is 19 cm long on your screen too, give or take a tenth on a phone. Hold a real one next to it.

How to play, in the Playground

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

WorkByLicense
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 ReckmannCC 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>

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