Animating Hair with Loosely Connected Particles

Yosuke Bando, Bing-Yu Chen, and Tomoyuki Nishita
The University of Tokyo

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• EG03_hair.pdf:
  Electronic version of the paper containing the hyperlinks to the movies listed below.
• interact.mpg (Figures 6(a)-(c)):
  Animation of back hair with hair-hair interactions. The hair is forced to split into two, and then merges again because of gravity. Hair-hair interactions prevent the hairs from penetrating each other.
• no_interact.mpg (Figure 6(d)):
  Animation of back hair without hair-hair interactions. The split hairs move independently and penetrate each other.
• shake.mpg (Figure 7):
  Animation of hair when the head is shaken. The head turns around and the hair follows this motion with delay because of inertia. Dynamic clustering effects are visible.
• wind.mpg (Figure 8):
  Animation of hair blowing in wind. The wind is also represented by particles, and interactions between the hair and the air are also simulated.

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