Predicting the drape of woven cloth using interacting particles

  • Authors:
  • David E. Breen;Donald H. House;Michael J. Wozny

  • Affiliations:
  • European Computer-Industry Research Centre and 1European Computer Industry Research Center, Arabellastrasse 17 D-81925 Munich, Germany;Visualization Laboratory, Texas A&M University and Visualization Laboratory, College of Architecture Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas;National Institute of Standards and Technology

  • Venue:
  • SIGGRAPH '94 Proceedings of the 21st annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
  • Year:
  • 1994

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Abstract

We demonstrate a physically-based technique for predicting the drape of a wide variety of woven fabrics. The approach exploits a theoretical model that explicitly represents the microstructure of woven cloth with interacting particles, rather than utilizing a continuum approximation. By testing a cloth sample in a Kawabata fabric testing device, we obtain data that is used to tune the model's energy functions, so that it reproduces the draping behavior of the original material. Photographs, comparing the drape of actual cloth with visualizations of simulation results, show that we are able to reliably model the unique large-scale draping characteristics of distinctly different fabric types.