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Theodore Kim Oct 9, 2024

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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St. Chris Oct 13, 2024

@TheodoreKim I remember when Pixar was talking about the new hair algorithms they developed for The Incredibles — for Violet’s perfectly straight hair. That was twenty years ago.

Beautiful work. This looks amazing.

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vandorb12 Oct 14, 2024

@FormerlyStC @TheodoreKim the Pixar team also showed the struggles they had with Brave hair tech for their protagonist, however the curl density was never at this level as described in the paper. I can only imagine if this tech was available when Soul was being animated how their characters would look.

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Theodore Kim

@vandorb12 @FormerlyStC The curly hair algorithm my Pixar colleagues developed for "Brave" was rejected from SIGGRAPH, even though it had already been successfully used in the film. The bias that the conference has shown towards straight hair has been entrenched for a long time.