Poets and novelists often describe hair as "shining" or "shimmering." Dark hair has a "sheen"; blond hair "glows." All this comes about because of the complex scattering of incident light off of ...

Imagine avatars of your favorite actors wandering through 3-D virtual worlds with hair that looks almost exactly like it does in real life. This level of realism for animated hairstyles is one step ...

Reproducing hair in computer graphics has always been a challenge, but it has certainly been more difficult for blondes. Now researchers at Cornell University have developed a better method for ...

Computer graphics research has always pushed the boundaries of software and hardware, forcing us to ask the question: “If the technology were fast enough, what else could be done?” Thankfully, as ...