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L’Oreal Uses Catia V5 to Study Hair

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By: TOM BRANNA

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L’Oreal Recherche and Dassault Systemes today announced that L’Oreal researchers are using Catia V5 computer-assisted design (CAD) software from Dassault Systemes for education and research on the hair follicle. The three-dimensional images present the mini-organ as it has never been seen before.There are 150,000 follicles in the scalp. Each is associated with a muscle, a sebaceous gland, and a sweat gland. The follicle produces hair fiber for about three years at which point a phase...

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