Yes - it looks like they're rendering the tips of each and every hair instead of applying natural flow to otherwise controlled bit minimized units. (Does this make sense? I haven't touched graphics since the 8 bit days.) This demo is odd and unnatural. Hair flows as "locks of hair', or when wind blown, as individual hairs that randomly break away from the locks under greater control. Interesting attempt though.
Yes, it's like rendering water with just the crest of the waves aka white tops and then the rest looks like a bullseye with same size waves same separation between them no chaotic movements.
THis seems the way of this hair program with randomization while keeping hair to hair interaction. This seems more like end of hairs have a magnet like pull in one direction adding and removing small amounts of pull but all directional unlike real air that moves in a switching direction from left to front to left to right. I say all movements pull to right then return to start then repeat with slight different strength of pushpull but just slightly. More like a hand made gif then a program. Hell they had better in video games 10 years ago in consoles then what I saw on that.
I think they need a randomization part that is likely broadly patented so that they can't even approach the reality of the past without being sued since no one has the talent to find an alternative in programming. Not that they are stupid just not gifted creatively enough to bypass the patented already code. I think I'd if this is the case challenge the patent if it's overly sweeping like randomized hair movement in digital that uses "this or that" but not a specific code just a description which is not a patent but bullshit.
I see what you're saying.
I tend to believe the talent is underutilized. I'm retired, but spent 40 years in IT, most of it in (now hackneyed term) "cutting edge technologies". For the first 25 years it was understood that top dollar talent had resource control and free rein over research and development of new ideas. After about 2005, R&D became a race to copy/tweak what was out there with little to no resources allotted towards new concepts. We've become China.
If you look at college priorities "race sex" you'll see how they dropped the ball and fired the best instructors since the best don't lie to keep their jobs. It's also the reason Linux is a slow ass piece of crap slowing down on faster hardware for almost a decade. Went from instant to wait for it on the mouse click, went from cutting edge to needs a different color scheme. Yeah it's all shit thanks to politics and it's all downhill with the current leadership in every fucking industry and government across the world.
A race to the bottom I call it. How cheap and shitty can you do something and still find a buyer is the new normal.
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