Tress Tests [Hair Apparent]

Animators have always had problems with creating realistic-looking hair, but now new techniques are making computer-generated hair just as shiny and bouncy as biological locks. It's hard to explain why watching technically reproduced hairdos is so engaging, but it is. See the clip by clicking on the pic at left. [New Scientist]

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Today's Inspirational Quote

"Let your mind alone, and see what happens."
- Virgil Thomson

"The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion."
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