Pencil test
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- 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 passing the work on to his assistant animators, who will go add details and some of the missing frames in the scene.
- An informal test for determining if a woman needs to wear a bra. A pencil is placed in the fold beneath the breast and chest. If the pencil does not fall, the woman has "failed the pencil test" and needs to wear a bra.
- The BBC used the term pencil test to describe a game of drawing straws [[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/beds/bucks/herts/4974304.stm]]
- An informal name for the vertical line test or a hands-on approach to this test. A person places a pencil vertically on a graph, then moves it horizontally across the portion of the graph depicted on the paper. If at any point the pencil intersects the graph in two or more points, it is an indication that it is not a function.
- A type of test used by authorities in apartheid South Africa to "determine" a person's race (see Coloured and Passing.) In the absence of any centralized method, this and other subjective tests were used in various places as part of the Population Registration Act of 1950. A pencil would be placed in a person's hair, if it fell through they were classified as "White" (or "Coloured", depending on other subjective classification considerations); if the pencil did not fall through, they were classified differently ("Coloured" or "Black", also depending on other subjective classification considerations). Members of the same family who had different hair textures would find themselves in different race groups as a result of this test. This presented serious consequences for many families (see Population Registration Act, Pass Law, Group Areas Act, District Six). [link] [link][link] [link]
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