There has NEVER been paper at #SIGGRAPH on Black, Afro-textured hair in its entire 50 year history.
UNTIL NOW.
We introduce CURLY-CUE: GEOMETRIC METHODS FOR HIGHLY COILED HAIR. When you STOP assuming straight hair is a universal baseline, lots of new science opens up.
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We identify three geometric phenomena unique to highly coiled hair: phase locking, switchbacks, and period skipping.
These phenomena do NOT appear in straight hair, and thus have been ignored at #SIGGRAPH, and CGI in general, for half a century.
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This is NOT another paper that shows one sad curly example after a dozen pages of straight hair. Those are *obviously* straight hair algorithms.
We treat hair as curly from the beginning. As a high-frequency helix, not a half-parabola.
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https://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/wu-haomiao/publication/curlyCue.html
We will present this paper at #SIGGRAPHAsia2024. More info in the Yale press release.
This work was with A.M. Darke, Alvin Shi, and Haomiao Wu.
Thanks to the Bungie Foundation, Kareem Shuman, H.D. Harris, Carvell Wallace, Elijah Richmond, and most of all, Jet Appling for making this work possible.
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https://seas.yale.edu/news-events/news/researchers-publish-landmark-study-hair-animation
Theodore Kim
Nicolas Holzschuch