Interactive Virtual Hair Salon

  • Authors:
  • Kelly Ward;Nico Galoppo;Ming Lin

  • Affiliations:
  • Walt Disney Feature Animation Burbank, CA 91521;-;Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599

  • Venue:
  • Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

User interaction with animated hair is desirable for various applications but difficult because it requires real-time animation and rendering of hair. Hair modeling, in cluding styling, simulation, and rendering, is computationally challenging due to the enormous number of deformable hair strands on a human head, elevating the computational complexity of many essential steps, such as collision detection and self-shadowing for hair. Using simulation localization techniques, multi-resolution representations, and graphics hardware rendering acceleration, we have developed a physically-based virtual hair salon system that simulates and renders hair at accelerated rates, enabling users to interactively style virtual hair. With a 3D haptic interface, users can directly manipulate and position hair strands, as well as employ real-world styling applications (cutting, blow-drying, etc.) to create hairstyles more intuitively than previous techniques.