Curly-Cue: modeling Afro-textured hair in 3D

It's all about the phase locking, switchbacks, and period skipping.

Image: Yale University

Curly-Cue: Geometric Methods For Highly Coiled Hair is the first paper about Afro-textured hair ever to be presented at a SIGGRAPH conference in all its 50-year history, writes Theodore Kim, one of its authors.

"When you STOP assuming straight hair is a universal baseline, lots of new science opens up," Kim wrote. "We identify three…