Hair Physics (Real-Time Computer Animation)

Sweet real-time hair rendering
By Connelly Barnes. From http://barnesc.blogspot.com/2006/06/real-time-hair-animation.html

"I used the Verlet integration and relaxation method described by Thomas Jakobsen in "Advanced Character Physics" [1] coupled with the animation techniques suggested by Chang, Jin, and Yu in [2] to make a fast hair simulation. My resulting video [3] was captured in real-time. The program can actually be sped up significantly by placing bounding boxes around individual quads, vertices, and segments; however, I ran into bugs when I tried to do this, so I left that optimization out for now. The results are interesting because they indicate that in video games, hair can be animated in real-time with relative ease."

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Howto & Style

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• hair
• compuer
• animation

[NutsandGuts]

mmmm that blonde chick looks grea...............OH SHIT IT'S A DISCO BALL!!!

[krononomikon]

that'd be cool in a boxing game... like when someone gets punched in the face ;) hair goes SPOOSH!

[XSilverful]

Could something like this be applied to MMORPGs? Would it be too much for most computers to handle?

[SinHarvester]

@NutsandGuts I wonder if I can get that disco balls number. It's very lonely here.

[aero1242]

OMG realtime OMG !

[AudaxRider]

I think that disco ball is in need of some hair gel That will keep it in place.

Ha ha ha

[waffamoto]

Dave Mustaine: The Video Game.

[GoodDay2YouSir]

thats one sexy disco ball

[jakejanne]

Lol? I didn't even realize whether it was or not. :P I got confused. But in my mind I knew that was "realtime".

[fossil98]

@jakejanne i should really read descriptions next time -_-

it was rendered in real time, so yeah beast computer required, kinda

[jakejanne]

Well yeah that's true but IF it was realtime. That would be like OMAGAWD.

[fossil98]

@jakejanne

not really,

this wasnt rendered in realtime, meaning it was calculated, THEN played, not at the same time