An Artist Friendly Hair Shading System

We show that physically based shading models fail to provide Intuitive artist controls and we introduce a novel approach for creating an art-directable hair shading model from existing physically based models.

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Speculative Parallel Asynchronous Contact Mechanics

We extend the Asynchronous Contact Mechanics algorithm [Harmon et al. 2009] and improve its performance by two orders of magnitude, using only optimizations that do not compromise ACM’s three guarantees of safety, progress, and correctness.

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