Yasser Mohsen
Thesis Implementation of Artistic Curly Hair
Dynamics in Houdini
Abstract
This is an implementation of artistic curly hair dynamics according to
the method introduced by Pixar to achieve the artistic hair introduced
in the movie Brave. This implementation is done using Houidini, to give
Houdini users the ability to apply these dynamics to their hair easily.
The implementation is divided into two major sections, the dynamics of
a single strain of hair, and optimizing the collision between different hair
strains. For the single strain, a combination of three strings is introduced,
Stretching string, Bending string, and Core string. For collisions, the
operation is optimized by pruning the close particles in the one strain to
reduce the amount of particles processed for a single strain from a side,
and then from the other side, neighboring hair strains are pruned when
possible to reduce the amount of strains to process.
Contact Info
Yasser Mohsen
yamohsen@aucegypt.edu
+447851920073