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>>>Is it really necessary to do each and every hair thread?

Of course, I didn't create 500k hairs by hand on a hair-by-hair basis - that's just physically impossible (you will spend many years and go insane in the end, if you try). That's just obvious.

In reality it works like this:
1) You create guide hairs (I've used 125 of them) - they are generated for you.
2) You style them in any manner you wish
3) Any hair amount is generated in the volume between them, which is used in rendering. In my case it was about 500k.

Here's even a good illustration from the Hair and Fur manual: However, this isn't easy, even though it looks like it. It's a giant amount of pain in the ass, practically.

>>>like an aggregate of wide curves joined in sharp angles or something similar to that
>>>as I looked for recent examples of her A-shaped hair-do

If by shaping you mean clustering, then I've done it.

Here's even an image from the manual - in our case it's under number 3. Hairs from which everything else is derived: And the full hairdo (less than 1% of hairs is displayed in the viewport): You can see that it's clustered (V-curved, A-shaped, whatever). Every 128 hairs, which are close enough to each other, spike together towards the tip. Also, you can distinctly see it in the rendered image. However, I wanted the root spread of each spike to be wider, but H&F's bug didn't let me do this. So, the spikes are thinner than I wanted.

Also, you can see sparse hairs marked with green, which fluff out of the main hair stream - these are the hairs meant to fill the volume (150k, yes).

>>> Maybe you can do it like in 99,9% of animes, like an aggregate of wide curves joined in sharp angles or something similar to that.
This can be done the cheap way, sure. There are even several cheap ways to do that with geometry instead of actual hairs.
Like these:
http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutori ... ndex5.html And even like this (maybe it's what you've meant): http://durian.blender.org/news/sintel-model-update/

These methods aren't suitable for me at all - I need actual hair, because I'll need real physics simulated (wind, gravity, collisions with the body), I'll need the light to pass through the hair (you can even see that effect in my rendering, for example, at the top of her head), I need it to be as precise as possible.

That's why.

Anyway, don't bother.