An implicit frictional contact solver for adaptive cloth simulation

Abstract

Fig. 1. Our implicit solver simultaneously resolves cloth elasticity, non-penetration and exact Coulomb friction constraints at every body-cloth and cloth-cloth contact, largely improving physical realism over previous methods. This new solver especially allows us to simulate accurately the effect of a varying friction coefficient µ, capturing a diversity of cloth sliding motions and folding patterns as shown in this batwing dress example (from left to right, µ = 0, µ = 0.1, µ = 0.3, and µ = 0.6). In this example featuring 2,600 contact points on average, our solver converges at each time step (dt = 2ms) to a high precision in a few hundred milliseconds only.Cloth dynamics plays an important role in the visual appearance of moving characters. Properly accounting for contact and friction is of utmost importance to avoid cloth-body and cloth-cloth penetration and to capture typical folding and stick-slip behavior due to dry friction. We present here the first method able to account for cloth contact with exact Coulomb friction, treating both cloth self-contacts and contacts occurring between the cloth and an underlying character. Our key contribution is to observe that for a nodal system like cloth, the frictional contact problem may be formulated based on velocities as primary variables, without having to compute the costly Delassus operator. Then, by reversing the roles classically played by the velocities and the contact impulses, conical complementarity solvers of the literature can be adapted to solve for compatible velocities at nodes. To handle the full complexity of cloth dynamics scenarios, we have extended this base algorithm in two ways: first, towards the accurate treatment of frictional contact at any location of the cloth, through an adaptive node refinement strategy; second, towards the handling of multiple constraints at each node, through the duplication of constrained nodes and the adding of pin constraints between duplicata. Our method allows us to handle the complex cloth-cloth and cloth-body interactions in full-size garments with an unprecedented level of realism compared to former methods, while maintaining reasonable computational timings.

The Matchstick Model for Anisotropic Friction Cones

“…We believe that it will be straightforward to extend our work to address friction models with other dependencies, such as sliding velocity (Stribeck effect) or nonlinear scaling with normal forces as employed in the recent work on cloth simulation [CFW13]. We note that anisotropic friction is generally in demand for cloth simulation [LDN*18].…”

A Transition-Aware Method for the Simulation of Compliant Contact With Regularized Friction

“…A semi-implicit Euler scheme solves Eq. (11) for v at the next time step and uses it to advance the configuration vector q to the next time step with Eq. (10).…”

Analyzing Clothing Layer Deformation Statistics of 3D Human Motions

“…This section shows how to model material parameters using our method. As material parameters are not readily available for captured data, we train from synthetic data generated using a state-of-art physical simulator [19]. For training, we simulate 8 sequences of the same garment pattern, worn by the same actor in a fixed motion, with varying materials.…”