Abstract:
We demonstrate a physically-based technique for producing
draping simulations of a variety of woven fabrics. Our approach
employs an interacting-particle model which is based on the
microstructure of woven cloth, rather than utilizing a
continuum approximation. Empirical data from a fabric testing device
is used to tune energy functions within the model. We describe the
model, how we convert the fabric test data to energy functions, and
two experiments conducted to evaluate the approach. The first
experiment produces non-linear mechanical data from the model. The
second experiment compares photographs of three different types of
draping cloth with visualizations of simulation results.
The experiments show that we are able to reliably recover quantitative
mechanical information from the model, and to reproduce the unique
large-scale draping characteristics of a range of fabric types.