Generating Realistic Hair Texture with Line Integral Convolution

Abstract

Synthesing of hair images is one of the most important and challenging computer-graphics problems.In this paper, we describe a new technique for automatically generating a realistic human-hair texture on 3 D models of human characters. This research was inspired by the similarity between the texture of human hair and the texture generated by an LIC algorithm. The developed of hair technique generates hair with a texture of human hair by using a vector field defining the directions of hair strands as the input to the 3 D LIC algorithm.