It can do more, but the preparation and the materials take far longer.

The form which their material sharing took involved two important features.

Gathering and arranging all that material took less than half a glass.

This material built up to considerable depth and must have taken years to cool down completely.

Unlike natural real fur, these materials can take a long time to break down (anywhere from 500 to 1,000 years).

Big jobs or hard materials (inorganics) will take longer to develop.

But sometimes his materials take him to places that he may not usually venture, if only vicariously.

There is a limit to the amount of elastic strain a material can take.

Such materials did not take a great deal of preparation for their use for drawing or writing.

Begun in c.1012, the materials took him roughly nine years to compile.