Automotive body styling appraisement is very important for body styling design. Because there is not tangible standard at the structure ascertaining of artificial neural network(ANN) and improvement of stability is needed for ANN inside black box characteristic, a bus-styling appraisement method using extension theory-based artificial neural network is presented. The key techniques of quasi-thr...

Styling design is becoming a crucial mark for the success of consumer goods on the global market. Computer Aided Styling (CAS) and Computer Aided Aesthetic Design (CAAD), but also manual work on physical models are the methods for creating optimal aesthetic shapes. The BriteEuRam project FIORES covering 12 partners including automotive companies, styling companies, system suppliers, and researc...

This paper presents an interactive system for creating natural looking 3D hairstyles, by which users can cut, comb and perm the hair model and generate realistic hair images. The system contains three stages: modeling, styling and rendering. In the first phrase, the system produces a physical hair model using a cantilever beam simulation with collision detection. Then the styling phrase is a ha...

Styling design is becoming a crucial mark for the success of consumer goods on the global market. Computer Aided Styling (CAS) and Computer Aided Aesthetic Design (CAAD), but also manual work on physical models are the methods for creating optimal aesthetic shapes. The BriteEuRam project FIORES covering 12 partners including automotive companies, styling companies, system suppliers, and researc...

Interactive styling of virtual hair is an important research field since it is essential for creating realistic looking human avatars for use in virtual worlds, computer games and movie special effects. Virtual hair models can contain thousands of hair strands and hence it is important to develop techniques which enable a designer to efficiently modify the hair in a realistic fashion. In this p...

Although a great part of the new-product development process in automotive industry is already digitalized to some degree, the level of digitalization of the styling process is not so high particularly in view of concurrent engineering. This paper is (1) to investigate the state-of-the-art of computer-aided styling (CAS), (2) to propose desirable CAS guidelines reflecting the characteristics of...

We present novel methods for capturing the key characteristics of hair influenced by water and styling products. Our approach includes a dynamics system that adaptively accounts for changing stiffness and weight of the hair, a geometric representation that can alter the physical depiction of hair based on the substance(s) present on it, and a rendering approach to account for the varying appear...

XML (Extensible Markup Language) has become the lingua franca for information integration, e-Business and metadata. It is also invading to office documents and hence becoming the format for organizational and end-user documents. XML documents themselves do not contain information about styling, i.e., how they should be rendered for print, screen, or other channels of publication. One document t...