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.