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Curly-Cue: Geometric Methods for Highly Coiled Hair


In Proceedings of SIGGRAPH Asia, 2024

Different features become visually relevant when hairs are well-approximated by high-frequency helices instead of low-frequency curves, so we present algorithms for three such phenomena. First, a Fourier-based method for phase locking, the process by which disparate helices near the scalp coalesce into a single curl. By applying all three methods in tandem, we show that we can achieve richly detailed depictions of highly coiled hair.

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