Tim-d-studio

As reported in the Atlantic, the first computer artwork was, it turns out, a 1950's  George Petty pinup rendered on a military computer: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/01/the-never-before-told-story-of-the-worlds-first-computer-art-its-a-sexy-dame/267439/

So, been writing a quick and dirty Maya MEL script to extract hair curves from NURBS surfaces. Idea is to model the base hair as simple NURBS geometry for the hairstyle, and then extract a series of  spline curves to be grouped together and attached to an existing simulated hair system in Maya. As the hair direction from the geometry can be aligned in U or V, I've added a switch to select which one is desired. So far, seems to do the trick- and seems to allow come pretty complex hairstyles to be made quite easily (weaves, braids, etc). Will post some experiments soon. Anyhow, thought I'd share (it's quick and dirty; written in a couple of ho

Hi DA- been a while. Still alive and CG-ing...