Real Time Fur is coming very soon, here is a paper and an example application, that runs on Win2000, check this out. This is very cool.
Real-Time Fur over Arbitrary Surfaces, once unzipped check out the readme.txt for more infos about the realtime controls.
On The Web – Real Time Fur
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