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for this part of my blender curve experiments I used the array modifier in combination with a curve modifier

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For this part of my blender particle experiments I hooked each vertex of a curve to an empty and animated it using a noise f-curve modifier

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The curve for this part of my blender curve experiments was generated form an icosphere by pressing alt-c and choosing "curve from mesh"

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with this blender curve experiment I wanted to test if a curve can act as a trac and be extruded at the same time

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For this blender curve experiment I used "hook to new Object" to create a bunch of emties that where controlled by a parent empty

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For this part of my blender curve experiments I animated a fuze using dynamic paint and a particle system

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for this part of my blender curve experiments I used a build modifier and an array modifier to make some spirals grow and join each other

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in this part of my blender curve experiments I made the camera follow a curve

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for this part of my blender curve experiments I played with the extrude parameter and a deform modifier

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First of all - no, cycles still has no hair or particle renderer - BUT To render short hair that doesn't need hair-dynamics you can use object groups to render the hair.

I made some spirales and deformed them using the proportional editing tool with random influence, grouped them together and used them as dubliobjects in a hair particle system on the head figure

The need to have a bevel value and bevel has to be set to full for this to work.

Still not perfect, because of the lack of hair-dynamics, but very nice for some cartoony characters or still images.

you can download the blend file here