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Interactive Hairstyle Modeling Using a Sketching Interface
Author(s): Xiaoyang Mao, Kouichi Kashio, Hiroyuki Kato, Atsumi Imamiya.
Proceedings: International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS'02), PartII, pp. 131--140, April,
2002.
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Abstract:
Modeling and rendering human hair remains to be one of the most challenging computer graphics problems. This paper presents a new interactive hair modeling system featured with a user-friendly sketching interface. With the sketching interface, any user, even a first time user, can create a hair model of his/her desired style just in a few minutes simply by interactively drawing several strokes illustrating the global and local features of the hairstyle. The result of the system is a generic geometry-based representation of hair which can be post manipulated and rendered with most existing systems.