Blu licenses an industrial-grade engineering softwaresystem called CATIA used by Boeing to design airliners, Virgin Galactic to build its suborbital space ship and automakers to create cars.
Merida's hair is made up of 1, 500 individually sculpted curves, distinct points in a three-dimensional space, that are programmed to bounce and interact in relation to one another via a new softwaresystem, says Ms. Chung.