Patent ID: 7050062

Claim:
A method for generating fur comprising: producing a plurality of hairs representative of a coat of fur; modifying at least one area or hair to provide a visual effect to the area of hair in response to an external influence, comprising for an area; identifying a hair of a plurality of hairs of the area as a clump-center hair, identifying an area size, indicating clump area parameters including clump-density, clump-size, and clump-percent, determining hairs of the plurality of hairs that are within the area as clump area hairs, the area located according to the clump-center hair and area size, orienting the clump area hairs according to the clump area parameters including clump-density, clump-size, and clump-percent, and dynamically varying the clump area parameters including clump-density, clump-size, and clump-percent to make the fur appear increasingly wet and to provide a variety of dry-to-wet fur appearances.