Computer Science Honours Dissertation 499
Dynamic Hair Generation

John Usher
Student Number: 931877B
Email: john@cs.curtin.edu.au
Supervisor: Andrew Marriott
Presented as part of the requirements for the award of the
Degree of Bachelor of Science (Computer Science)(Honours)
School of Computing
Curtin University of Technology

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• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Introduction
  • The Problem
  • Objectives
• Survey of Relevant Literature
  • Hair Modelling
    • Physical Properties of Hair
    • Hair Rendering without Modelling
    • Hair Rendering with Modelling
  • Texture Rendering
  • Volume Rendering
  • Collision Avoidance
  • Other related papers
  • Summary
• Research Methodology
• Implementation
  • Modelling a Single Hair
    • Introduction
    • The Cantilever Beam
  • Adding hair to the fh model
  • Collision Detection
    • Collision Avoidance
    • The Intersection Test
    • Voxelisation
  • Multiple Hairs
    • Choosing Where to Place Hair
    • Normal Interpolation
  • Hairdressing
    • Getting User Input
    • Multiple Hair Groups
  • Rendering the Hair
  • Adding Hair to Polygonalised Surfaces
  • Summary
• Results
  • Adding Hair To Polygonalised Surfaces
    • Variation in Polygon Size
  • Dynamic, Interactive Hair Rendering
    • Group Control
  • Using Inventor and Object Oriented Methodology
  • Realistic Rendering of Hair
  • Software Speed
    • Voxelisation
    • Timings on different platforms
• Future Work
  • Animation
  • Rendering
  • Hair Generation Techniques
  • Reading Other Models
  • Improved Tools
• Conclusion
• References
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