Research problems in clothing simulation

Abstract

Clothing simulation and animation are of great importance in computer animation. If cloth simulations could be improved to the point that they could generate realistic cloth motion in real-time, they would find uses in many aspects of daily life such as in fashion design and manufacturing. The area of cloth simulation and animation is full of technical challenges: creating more realistic results, achieving faster runtimes, and developing methods capable of constructing and simulating more complex garments. This paper provides an overview of the key procedures involved in the creation of clothed characters, describes the current state-of-the-art techniques, and proposes the research problems that most require further study. Three technical aspects of cloth simulation are considered in this paper: garment construction, physically based simulation, and collision resolution. q

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“…Since then, there has been an extensive amount of work by different research groups [5,7,10,23] that have addressed several aspects of simulating cloth. An extensive overview of cloth simulation techniques can be found in two survey papers [8,16]. Preconditioners play a very important part in implicit cloth simulation as they can greatly speed up convergence of numerical methods.…”

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“…Three challenging research problems in physically-based simulation of cloth models are depicted in [21]. Below we propose two research directions for future garment CAD development.…”

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“…For brevity, we review work on stretch resistance; for broad surveys on cloth simulation see [House and Breen 2000;Choi and Ko 2005].…”