Interactive Hairstyle Modeling Using a Sketching Interface

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 hisiher 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.

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