A Survey on Hair Modeling: Styling, Simulation, and Rendering

Kelly Ward (1) , Florence Bertails (2) , Tae-Yong Kim (3) , Stephen R. Marschner (4) , Marie-Paule Cani (2) , Ming C. Lin (5)

1 Walt Disney Feature Animation
2 EVASION - Virtual environments for animation and image synthesis of natural objects
3 Rhythm and Hues Studio
4 Cornell University [New York]
5 UNC - University of North Carolina [Chapel Hill]

Realistic hair modeling is a fundamental part of creating virtual humans in computer graphics. This paper surveys the state of the art in the major topics of hair modeling: hairstyling, hair simulation, and hair rendering. Because of the difficult, often unsolved, problems that arise in all these areas, a broad diversity of approaches are used, each with strengths that make it appropriate for particular applications. We discuss each of these major topics in turn, presenting the unique challenges facing each area and describing solutions that have been presented over the years to handle these complex issues. Finally, we outline some of the remaining computational challenges in hair modeling.

Mots clés: Hair modeling; physically-based simulation; hardware rendering; light scattering; user-interaction; collision handling

Domaines: Synthèse d'image et réalité virtuelle [cs.GR]

Kelly Ward, Florence Bertails, Tae-Yong Kim, Stephen R. Marschner, Marie-Paule Cani, et al.. A Survey on Hair Modeling: Styling, Simulation, and Rendering. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2007, 13 (2), pp.213-234. ⟨10.1109/TVCG.2007.30⟩. ⟨hal-00171407⟩