Fabric and Garment Drape Measurement - Part 1

Sanad, Reham; Cassidy, Tony; Cheung, Vien

doi:10.3993/jfbi12201201

Cited by 16 publications

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“…a testing device called a Drapemeter [18] -during which a fabric specimen is allowed to fall under its own weight. Sanad et al [19] provide a comprehensive overview of measurement methods that have been developed during the past decades for evaluating fabric drape. Instruments include static, dynamic, photovoltaic and alternative drapemeters.…”

Section: Fabric Drape Measurement and Image Processingmentioning

confidence: 99%

1D and 2D Shape Descriptors Applied in Fabric Drape Computer Simulation

Tomc

Hladnik

2015

F&TinEE

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Fabric drape simulations accomplished by computer graphics software can provide the basis for effective communication among designers, manufacturers and other players in the apparel industry. The goal of our study was to investigate various 1D and 2D shape descriptors used to characterize renderings of 3D drape simulations in dependence on the geometry of collision objects and fabric type. Image processing routines were implemented to extract and compute the shape descriptors while principal components analysis was applied to interpret the relationships among the parameters studied. Drapes on cube, octahedron and prism were found to behave in a distinctively different manner compared to those produced using the other six collision objects: cone, cylinder, dodecahedron, gengon, sphere, and tube. A first principal component can be, to a large extent, represented by the following mutually strongly correlated 2D shape descriptors: area, major axis length, minor axis length, equivalent diameter, and perimeter. Analysis using 1D shape descriptors confirms these findings and additionally suggests that rubber-based drapes contain the lowest number of folds while those on polyester, wool, and sometimes silk and/or satin are characterized by the highest number of drape folds. These results were confirmed by visual examination of the drapes simulated.

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Section: Fabric Drape Measurement and Image Processingmentioning

confidence: 99%

1D and 2D Shape Descriptors Applied in Fabric Drape Computer Simulation

Tomc

Hladnik

2015

F&TinEE

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“…Normally, drape is subjectively evaluated by textile and apparel workers in the design and manufacturing industry [ 9 ], but the result of this method varies greatly with different individuals and lacks of reproducibility. To find an efficient, accurate and reliable method to reflect the drape property, lots of effort and improvements have been made to interpret drape quantitatively.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This method involved a camera and a beam of parallel light to capture the projection of draped fabric and a set of software to process the projection image. By means of image analysis the detailed data of drape property such as drape shape parameters and statistical information including drape wave amplitude, wave length and number of nodes were developed and computed from drape profile image [ 9 ]. Image analysis method takes less time, independent of operator, and has a better repeatability with more parameters and makes it possible to investigate time dependence of drape coefficient [ 18 ].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Unidirectional Fabric Drape Testing Method

et al. 2015

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In most cases, fabrics such as curtains, skirts, suit pants and so on are draped under their own gravity parallel to fabric plane while the gravity is perpendicular to fabric plane in traditional drape testing method. As a result, it does not conform to actual situation and the test data is not convincing enough. To overcome this problem, this paper presents a novel method which simulates the real mechanical conditions and ensures the gravity is parallel to the fabric plane. This method applied a low-cost Kinect Sensor device to capture the 3-dimensional (3D) drape profile, thus we obtained the drape degree parameters and aesthetic parameters by 3D reconstruction and image processing and analysis techniques. The experiment was conducted on our self-devised drape-testing instrument by choosing different kinds of weave structure fabrics as our testing samples and the results were compared with those of traditional method and subjective evaluation. Through regression and correlation analysis we found that this novel testing method was significantly correlated with the traditional and subjective evaluation method. We achieved a new, non-contact 3D measurement method for drape testing, namely unidirectional fabric drape testing method. This method is more suitable for evaluating drape behavior because it is more in line with actual mechanical conditions of draped fabrics and has a well consistency with the requirements of visual and aesthetic style of fabrics.

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“…Image analysis was then carried out on the images captured by camera from below the garments suspended on a mannequin. They proved conclusively that there was a very poor correlation between fabric and garment drape values.They went on to derive an equation to predict drape rank scores for garments depending on circularity and wavelength minimum [121][122][123]. Importantly existing tests of drape use templates which do not represent cross section of the body at even key locations.…”

Section: Fabric Drape Versus Garment Drapementioning

confidence: 99%