The pattern of caucasian hair...
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Hello, I've made research on this but can't seem to find any answer on this.
I'm black so it's really hard for me to take my own hair as an example since Afro-hair pushs straight up in the direction of the scalp normals (lol).
However, I've noticed that with white people's hair, there are two cases of growth pattern:
The mid-seam (not sure how to call it)
and the spiral growth
This one seems to be a male feature only (am I wrong) ?
I never understood how you guys hair grow so I've always drawn them without necessarily understanding their forms.
Any help on this?
I'm black so it's really hard for me to take my own hair as an example since Afro-hair pushs straight up in the direction of the scalp normals (lol).
However, I've noticed that with white people's hair, there are two cases of growth pattern:
The mid-seam (not sure how to call it)
and the spiral growth
This one seems to be a male feature only (am I wrong) ?
I never understood how you guys hair grow so I've always drawn them without necessarily understanding their forms.
Any help on this?
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Is there a chart to represent all of these?
Like, people who wear their hair into a high pony-tail often, will actually have their hair grow upwards(While people with long hair that's constantly loose will have to spend more time on styling it upwards when they wear a high pony-tail). Usually hair stylists will try to find how your hair naturally falls(and splits) because wearing it in a radically different manner can actually hurt and give you irritated skin for the rest of the day.
Probably an actual hair specialist could tell you more, but this is what I know.
The 'Crown' and the 'Split'.
I'm 100% sure we don't. Take a look at a black man shaved hair and you will see there's no pattern. It's going straight up.
http://udel.edu/~mcdonald/mythhairwhorl.html
"...Wunderlich and Heerema (1975) could see a hair whorl in only 10 percent of black newborns, and Ziering and Krenitsky (2003) reported that 80 percent of African-American men had a diffuse pattern instead of a whorl. Ucheya and Igweh (2005), however, identified a whorl in all 500 of their sample of Nigerian men..."
the swirl comes from brushing/styling as well. I am Caucasian, have close cropped hair and i do not have a swirl or a part FWIW.
"The hairy ball theorem of algebraic topology states that there is no nonvanishing continuous tangent vector field on even-dimensional n-spheres."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hairy_ball_theorem
Everyone has this, it's a fact. Whether it's observable due to the hairs themselves and the way they grow out is a different matter. If you were to take some hair straighteners to a black person with long hair, and then let it fall naturally, you would observe a crown. You don't find them easy to see normally, because the hair is so frizzy it masks it.