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The approach introduces a novel five-dimensional parameter space that bijectively encodes naturally occurring hair textures. Centerline geometry is distilled into a canonical texture space to disentangle texture from style. Texture-specific strands are generated via generative AI supervised by a neural network using the five-parameter description, enabling both texture transfer and groom editing across diverse hair types.","arXiv :2607 .09811v1 [ cs .CV] 10 Jul 2026  \nDetangled: A Framework for Creating, Editing, and Inferencing Feature Rich Hair Strands  \nSARAH JOBALIA, Stanford University, USA YITONG DENG, Stanford University, USA CAROLYN SMITH, Stanford University, USA RONALD FEDKIW, Stanford University, USA  \nFig. 1. Using our pipeline, we transform an input groom (center) to reflect various target hair strand textures while maintaining the overall style. The four grooms surrounding the input groom are rendered outputs from our pipeline.  \nWe present a framework for understanding and generating feature rich hair strands. Drawing upon both scientific and cultural expertise, we define strand texture as the various distinctive patterns (curling, switchbacks, twist, etc.) that are formed by forces internal to a hair strand. We begin by proposing a novel five-dimensional parameter space, intended to be a bijection with naturally occurring hair strand textures. This encoding is both qualitatively accessible, allowing users to readily locate their own hair in the parameter space, and quantitatively precise, allowing the generation of individual strands from texture inputs. Importantly, strand texture should be independent from the overall strand direction. In order to disentangle strand texture from the overall strand direction, we identify centerline geometry and use it to map strands into a canonical space (a strand texture space) . We construct centerlines using a novel method that cleanly distills complex hair grooms, separating the strand texture from the overall style (parameterized by style guides) . We enable the creation of new strands conforming to our parametric description of texture via a generative artificial intelligence approach supervised by a separate neural network trained to label candidate strands according to our five-parameter description. The ability to create new strands conforming to any desired texture enables groom editing using either texture transfer or user-provided inputs. We demonstrate results on a variety of hair types.  \nAdditional Key Words and Phrases: Hair, Generation, Editing, Inference, Disentanglement, Texture, Style, Direction, Centerline, Geometry, Style Guides, Diffusion, Modeling, Rendering, Animation, AI, Machine Learning, Neural Networks, Parametric Models, Point-Based Models  \n1 Introduction  \nHair is central to how humans express themselves [45]. It not only reflects heritage (people, places, and communities) but also signifies the cultural landscapes people navigate and the personal choices they make within them. Dating back to as early as the Paleolithic era, descriptions and depictions of hair have been an essential part of storytelling [98, 112]. In the modern digital world of film, television, social media, and gaming, hair representations are increasingly  \nimportant. In fact, with U.S. consumers spending an average of eight hours per day engaging in digital media [43], the characters they interact with have an outsized impact on how they perceive themselves and the world around them [73]. Particularly for children, being exposed to depictions of hair that resemble their own buildsa sense of relevance, validity, and empowerment [70] .  \nCertain hair types are much more rare on screen than in the population at large [66] . In particular, curly and/or afro-textured hair is drastically underrepresented compared to its almost 40% prevalence worldwide (65% in the U.S.) [2, 40, 90, 95, 128]. In order for digitally created content to better reflect the population, more robust hair generation and grooming tools are necessary. Current toolsets typically start from a straight hair default and lack the flexibility required for a non-expert to create and edit more diverse hairstyles. Even with recent advancements in data-driven approaches, curly and afro-textured hairstyles still remain challenging. 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