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Would be very very nice...

Create a simple line in C++ code, be able to set the positions of the vertices and load into Maya.
MFnNurbsCurve should be the way to go:
http://help.autodesk.com/view/MAYAUL/2017/ENU/?guid=__files_Appendices_Appendix_A_NURBS_Geometry_htm

Start look how to render hair nicely, it's probably a bit tricky..
Take the shader from: https://github.com/ImageEngine/cortex/wiki/ExamplesProceduralsHairShader

And bind it to input in FurryNode, as Andrew suggested to keep a clean state in our application and be able to update in animation slider.

curve -p 0 0 0 -p 5 0 0 -p 5 0 5 -p 0 0 5;
createNode -n FurrySystem furry
connectAttr curve1 furry.strand // or connectAttr curve1.controlVertices furry.controlVertices
connecAttr time1.outTime furry.time

Maya 2016

Something like this...

1. Get selected mesh (sphere)
2. Get Sphere center (position)
3. Get Sphere radius
4. Strand length and number_of_points_per_strand must be defined
5. createHairSystemNode (possibly also strand nodes)
6. for ( int i = 0; i < num_of_hairs ; i++) {
   randomize start position (e.g. a = rand[0,2pi], x = rand(-r, r), or x =rand(0, pi) )
   direction = (randomPos - spherePos).normalized
   createNurbsCurve where p0 = randomPos, p1 = randomPos + directionsegmentLength
   Attach curve to some node (either strand or hair system)
   }

When we press animate we want to call an update function in our plug-in through a Python/MEL script? To start with try to log something