Computing Static Electricity on Human Hair

Gerrit Sobottka and Andreas Weber
In proceedings of Theory and Practice of Computer Graphics 2006, pages 21-29, 2006
Presented at Theory and Practice of Computer Graphics 2006
 

Abstract

We present a framework to study electrical charge phenomena on human hair. We propose a fiber based hair model which bases on the special theory of Cosserat Rods to overcome the well known difficulties one has to deal with when simple particle systems are used. We show how such models can efficiently be employed in conjunction with the fast multipole method to account for Coulomb far-field interactions. Furthermore, we extend our model such that we can account for environmental conditions.

Keywords: hair modelling

Bibtex

@INPROCEEDINGS{sobottka-2006-computing,
      author = {Sobottka, Gerrit and Weber, Andreas},
       pages = {21--29},
       title = {Computing Static Electricity on Human Hair},
   booktitle = {Theory and Practice of Computer Graphics 2006},
        year = {2006},
    keywords = {hair modelling},
    abstract = {We present a framework to study electrical charge phenomena on
                               human hair. We propose a fiber based hair model which bases on the
                               special theory of Cosserat Rods to overcome the well known
                               difficulties one has to deal with when simple particle systems are
                               used. We show how such models can efficiently be employed in
                               conjunction with the fast multipole method to account for Coulomb
                               far-field interactions. Furthermore, we extend our model such that
                               we can account for environmental conditions.},
  conference = {Theory and Practice of Computer Graphics 2006}
}