Found this curious little video about mechanical pencils quite by chance… while searching for some good mechanical pencil component diagrams. There’s a diagram embedded in the video… and somehow the search figured that out. I wonder if “AI” is powering even basic Google image searches now.
It’s pretty nicely done graphically… maybe a little over the top. And it’s VERY simplistic. Most of us would yawn over the bulk of the content. Also, the video editor didn’t pause long enough on some screens. But this little drawing was kind of neat. Someone took the time to draw all of these pencils individually… assuming of course, the video creator didn’t snatch it off the web and forgot to make an attribution:
