Hair braid

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i want to create a tangled hair how it could be done ?
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i am assuming, model one curve and then use poly wire to give thickness and then clone that one model a little bit up, and one more time so you end up with 3 tubes.
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I wonder if you could braid it by using a wire solver and animated target shapes. So you would actually model the braid using dynamics and animation.
*) Or you could figure out what the actual math is for a braided curve,
*) or you could manually move the points of the curves
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Just had to

First I got it working but it was kinda ugly, then I asked mr google and he pointed me to this thread [renderosity.com], from which I pilfered the attached:

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