A CAD system for multi-style thermal functional design of clothing

  • Authors:
  • Aihua Mao;Yi Li;Xiaonan Luo;Ruomei Wang;Shuxiao Wang

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute of Textiles and Clothing, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Hong Kong;Institute of Textiles and Clothing, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Hong Kong;Department of Computer Science, Zhongshan University, Guangzhou, China and Key Laboratory of Digital Life (Sun Yat-sen University), Ministry of Education, Guangzhou, China;Institute of Textiles and Clothing, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Hong Kong and Key Laboratory of Digital Life (Sun Yat-sen University), Ministry of Education, Guangzhou, China;Institute of Textiles and Clothing, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Hong Kong

  • Venue:
  • Computer-Aided Design
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Designing clothing with good thermal functional performance is very demanding and time-consuming if we follow traditional design methods. An innovative method consisting of a CAD system, allowing the designer to perform multi-style clothing thermal functional design on a customized virtual human body, is presented in this paper. The new functionalities of the virtual system provide the abilities to perform intelligent design of different clothing styles and materials for different body parts according to individual design requirements, namely design of various categories of clothing, such as hat, coat, trousers, gloves and shoes in the same design scheme. The designed clothing can be worn on a virtual human body and set in various wearing scenarios. The thermal behaviors in the human body-clothing-environment are simulated to predict the thermal performance of clothing and thermal response of the human body at multi-parts. 2D/3D visualization and animation of the simulation results are presented to help the designers to preview and determine whether the thermal performance of clothing is satisfactory and then obtain feedback to improve their designs iteratively.