Adaptive meshing for cloth animation

  • Authors:
  • J. Villard;H. Borouchaki

  • Affiliations:
  • IFTH, Troyes, France;GSM-LASMIS, Université de Technologie de Troyes, BP 2060, 10010, Troyes Cedex, France

  • Venue:
  • Engineering with Computers
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Most of the numerical simulation methods regarding cloth draping are based on mechanical models. Graphically, the representation of this model is likely to be a uniform grid. Fabrics being a very flexible material, a number of wrinkles appear on its surface when submitted to free or constrained motion (collision/applied load, supports). The problem regarding the simulation run is to represent realistically the mechanical system surface and its associated motion which are strongly related to mesh discretization. We propose a new method based on adaptive meshing allowing the mechanical system to behave without any constraint related to a uniform mesh. Numerical examples are given to show the efficiency of the method.