How : hairs+blender+instancing ? Tweet

[FractalBuddha]

How to make realistic hairs with blender and use instancing at the same time ?

Is it possible to have curve shapes ?

In the octane blog, they show hairs with instancing.
http://render.otoy.com/newsblog/?p=156
How they did that and can I apply this with blender ?

Thank you

[kavorka]

It looks like they made the hair real geometry.
says the hair is over 1 million polys.

I've never tried this with Blender, but if there is an option to make strands "real", it will work.