Is there any chance we could get fiber texturing along the length of the fiber ? Currently we can color every fiber differently but we can't have different colors for the root of the fiber and different color for the tip of the fiber. I am not talking about applying textures to fibers, only solid colors and the colors along the length could be applied only at the fiber border segments where whe already have fiber "joints".
So we could get an effect similar to this:
I have used dirt node to get this look. It works because fiber tips are less ocluded then the roots but this adds a lot of extra rendering resources and it is not consistent, it depends on the fur density and placement.