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…
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