Accurate Garment Prototyping and Simulation

Despite numerous methods available for cloth simulation, virtual garment prototyping has yet to find its way toward the garment industry, the main issues being simulation accuracy and the potentiality for reproducing the complex behavior of complex garment models. These goals can only be reached through an optimal combination of modeling techniques and numerical methods that combines high computation efficiency with the versatility required for simulating intricate garment designs. We here describe optimal choices illustrated by their integration in a design and simulation tool that allow interactive prototyping of garments along drape motion and comfortability tests on animated postures.