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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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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This week at SCA, we're presenting the first physics-based simulation method specifically designed for afro-textured/kinky/Type 4 hair.
For tightly coiled hair, it turns out you don't really need per-edge frames or parallel transport operators.
The machine learning paper I was on three years ago is now my top cited paper on Google Scholar.
It has more citations than the paper that was used in 30+ movies and won me an Oscar, and all my papers that have been used in Pixar movies over the last 5 years.
I updated the “Areas of Interest” on my profile. Citations and impact are not the same.
Today! Yale CS and Yale SEAS welcomes the one and only @silviasellan as our inaugural Rising Stars Lecture Series speaker. The talk is at 1:15 in AKW 200.
The title has been revised to "Uncertain Surface Reconstruction", but the talk poster remains snazzy nonetheless 😀
This is also my inaugural "trying to tag somebody on Mastodon" post!