At last, a burning question has been answered. How can we predict the shape of a ponytail? Raymond Goldstein of the University of Cambridge, Patrick Warren from Unilever R&D Port Sunlight and Robin Ball from the University of Warwick have succeeded where others have failed. We now can predict the shape of ponytails. Before you scoff, bear in mind that this information could prove invaluable in the development of both textiles and computer animation. OK, you can now scoff if you like.
When hair is gathered together, the thickness of individual hairs, total number of hairs and curliness of each hair all affect what the resulting ponytail will look like. The researchers used samples of real human hair to compare actual ponytails with models predicted by their derived ponytail equation.
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