mike@adm.BRL.MIL (Michael John Muuss ) (03/08/89)
The closest thing I have seen to what you are asking for is the
Cyberware laser 3-d digitizer. I had my head scanned at Siggraph, and
got the vendor to write me a tape. The data has been a lot of fun,
being a full 3-d outline of my head. Individual hairs, pores, etc
can be resolved in the data. Quite amazing.
Replacing hairstyle could be done by first (a) roughly determining
the shape of the head, then (b) re-scaling existing hair model to
fit the shape of the desired head, and (c) merging scaled hair
with scanned head.
Of course, building up the database of available styles could take some
"up front" work, but it should pay off nicely.
Thinking again, you might be satisfied with a simple "picture compositor"
like I have seen used to make T-shirts with your head composited
on top of some incredible body. That might well be affordable for
a hair stylist (if that was your intention). The "real" solution
I outlined first (a full 3-d model of the subject's head merged
with a scaled hair model) would be overkill, and the $200k
price-tag for all the required hardware should prove daunting to
most hair stylists (I hope!).
You have posed an intriguing concept. Want to say more?
Best,
-Mike
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Mike Muusseugene@eos.UUCP (Eugene Miya) (03/09/89)
Contact the offices of Max Factor (about El Segundo and Western)
in Los Angeles. Try any of the major cosmetics companies. They
buy these types of systems.
Another gross generalization from
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"Post follow ups. Contribute to network noise."andrea@hp-sdd.hp.com (Andrea K. Frankel) (03/09/89)
What you want does exist, but I can't give you a pointer. I recall
seeing an article in the popular press showing use by a hairstylist,
where the client could try on various styles and colors before
committing themselves. There was some mention of use by surgeons (for
reconstruction) and possibly in crime fighting (identification), but I
don't know if that was in use or projected usage.
This system was PC-based, and was more than a simple 2-D paint system.
The hairstyles were stored in a form that permitted them to be resized
so that they adapted to the person's head (rather than being a straight
pixel-level overlay), and also to be manipulated (pull out a curve a bit
more, lengthen or shorten).
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