- Title
- A lightwave 3d plug-in for modeling long hair on virtual humans
- Creator
- Patrick, Deborah, Bangay, Shaun D
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2003
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/432953
- Identifier
- vital:72916
- Identifier
- https://doi.org/10.1145/602330.602360
- Description
- Multimedia applications today make use of virtual humans. Generating realistic virtual humans is a challenging problem owing to a number of factors, one being the simulation of realistic hair. The difficulty in simulating hair is due to the physical properties of hair. The average human head holds thousands of hairs, with the width of each hair often smaller than the size of a pixel. There are also complex lighting effects that occur within hair. This paper presents a LightWave 3D plug-in for modeling thousands of individual hairs on virtual humans. The plug-in allows the user to specify the length, thickness and distribution of the hair, as well as the number of segments a hair is made up of. The plug-in is able to add hairs to a head model, which the user then modifies to define a hairstyle. The hairs are then multiplied by the plug-in to produce many hairs. By providing a plug-in that does most of the work and produces realistic results, the user is able to produce a hairstyle without modeling each individual strand of hair. This greatly reduces the time spent on hair modeling, and makes the possibility of adding realistic long hair to virtual humans reasonable.
- Format
- 7 pages, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Computer graphics, virtual reality, visualisation and interaction in Africa, Patrick, D. and Bangay, S., 2003, February. A lightwave 3d plug-in for modeling long hair on virtual humans. In Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Computer graphics, virtual Reality, visualisation and interaction in Africa (pp. 161-187), Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Computer graphics, virtual reality, visualisation and interaction in Africa volume 2003 number 1 161 187 2003 978-1-58113-643-2
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Bangay, Shaun Douglas (Dr)
RU Department of Computer Science
SDG 09. Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
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