Pencil test
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- For the a type of test used by authorities in Apartheid era South Africa to determine a person's race, see The Pencil test at the One-drop rule article.
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Pencil test has multiple meanings.
- In traditional animation, a preliminary version of the final animated scene. The pencil drawings are quickly photographed or scanned and synced with the necessary soundtracks. This allows the animation to be reviewed and improved upon before being passed to assistant animators, who will add details and some of the missing frames in the scene. In European studios, the pencil test is called the "line test", because it happens before the cels get their colour.
- An informal test for determining if a woman needs to wear a bra. A pencil is placed in the fold between the breast and chest. If the pencil does not fall, the woman has "failed the pencil test" and needs to wear a bra. Diane Brill provides her own version of the pencil test; she instructs women to wear their best corset or sexiest bra, then stick a pencil vertically into the cleavage. If it doesn't fall, the cleavage is perfect. [1]
- In the film Breast Men, the pencil test was demonstrated by a female performer as a method of determining the desirability of having breast augmentation or breast implants. If, when placed under the breast against the skin of the torso, a pencil does not fall to the ground (i.e. the pencil held in place by weight of the breast against the skin of the torso; that is, the normal positioning of the breast), augmentation is desirable.
- The BBC used the term pencil test to describe a game of drawing straws. [2]
- An informal name for the vertical line test or a hands-on approach to this test. A person places a pencil's tip on a graph, then moves it vertically (parallel to the Y-axis) across the portion of the graph depicted on the paper. If the pencil intersects any given curve more than once, that curve is not a function.
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