A Tutorial on
Interactive Hair Modeling: Techniques and Challenges

Florence Bertails is a PhD student in Computer Science at Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG), France. She graduated in 2002 from the Telecommunication School of INPG and received a MSc in Image, Vision and Robotics. Her research focuses on hair animation and physically-based modeling. She presented her work on hair simulation at international conferences such as the ACM-EG Symposium of Computer Animation and Eurographics, and received the best student paper award at Graphics Interface 2005 for interactive rendering of animated hair. She is currently investigating new models for hair in collaboration with physicists and hair scientists from L'Oreal Research.