Ooh.  Teyon reminded me of an approach used for the afro hairstyle in MakeHuman.  As shown in the attached image, it uses a series of transmapped polygons, but they're arranged perpendicularly to the surface of the body in a grid fashion.  The result looks surprisingly good as curly hair, and it wouldn't be too hard to model such a thing.

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Cage can be an opinionated jerk who posts without thinking.  He apologizes for this.  He's honestly not trying to be a turkeyhead.

Cage had some freebies, compatible with Poser 11 and below.  His Python scripts were saved at archive.org, along with the rest of the Morphography site, where they were hosted.