Hair styling has been my pet/side project for a long time now, but yet to make a break-thru.  I think poly-based transmapped hair is the way forward (rather than stand hair) since it more closely imitates the natural collectiveness of hair strands, and your ability to construct polys in a patterned way could be a way of achieving that.  It's a matter of growing poly/transmapped hair from a dynamic hair skullcap, then somehow applying gravity and collisions to it.  I tried using the cloth room to drape hair strands, and it seems theoretically doable, but would take a lot of work.

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