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Real-Time Animation of Human Hair Modeled in Strips

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Computer Animation and Simulation 2000

Part of the book series: Eurographics ((EUROGRAPH))

Abstract

A major difficulty in animating human hair results from the large number of individual hair strands in a hairstyle. Current systems of hair modeling and animation use a static, non-scalable representation of hair and consequently, they are better suited for off-line rendering and animation. This paper describes how hair strands can be represented using a more compact and accurate parametric representation. In addition, we propose a novel framework of human hair modeling and animation based on grouping hair strands into strips. Each hair strip is modeled by one patch of parametric surface. Polygon tessellation and the alpha-mapping using hair textures are then applied. Animation is done by keyframing of the control point of surface patches. The parametric representation of hair strips can handle a deformation of any complexity and still appear smooth. We also use multiresolution techniques in the polygon tessellation and apply alpha-mapping to obtain higher speed with different requirements of details for applications. Real-time performance on a PC platform can be achieved with the help of low-end hardware of 3D acceleration.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, School of Computing, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 117543

    C. K. Koh & Z. Huang

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  1. MIRA Lab, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

    Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann

  2. Computer Graphics Laboratory, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Daniel Thalmann

  3. Institut de Recherche an Informatique et Systèmes Aléatoires, Rennes, France

    Bruno Arnaldi

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Koh, C.K., Huang, Z. (2000). Real-Time Animation of Human Hair Modeled in Strips. In: Magnenat-Thalmann, N., Thalmann, D., Arnaldi, B. (eds) Computer Animation and Simulation 2000. Eurographics. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-6344-3_8

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