A Biologically-Parameterized Feather Model |
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Authors: | L.Streit W.Heidrich |
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Affiliation: | , Imager Computer Graphics Lab The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada |
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Abstract: | Feathers, unlike other cutaneous appendages such as hair, fur, or scales have a definite structure. Variation in feather structure creates a wide range of resulting appearances. Collectively, feather structure determines the appearance of the feather coat, which can largely affect the resulting look of a feathered object (bird). In this paper we define the structure of individual feathers using a parameterization based on biological structure and substructures of actual feathers. We show that our parameterization can generate a large variety of feathers at multiple levels of detail and provide an initial step to semi‐automatically generating a wide range of feather coats. his is achieved by specifying an intuitive interpolation between different structures and ages of feathers. |
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