Simulation Apps
- http://www.joealter.com/ - has "Shave and a Haircut" is a CG Hair package which is fully integrated into maya, it also has a renderman output node. It looks rather good, very similar to the SPI hair system. - SamR
http://blender.org/cms/Hair_Strand_Rendering.722.0.html -- Thu, 16 Mar 2006 23:00:27 -0800 reply
With 2.40 release blender gained some hair rendering and such as well as some other features that may be related. Some fluid dynamics and whatnot.