A PARTICLE-BASED MODEL FOR SIMULATING THE DRAPING BEHAVIOR OF WOVEN CLOTH

We demonstrate a physically based technique for producing draping simu lations of a variety of woven fabrics. Our approach employs an interac ting-particle model based on the microstructure of woven cloth, rather than using a continuum approximation. Empirical data from a fabric te sting device are used to tune energy functions within the model. We de scribe the model, how we convert the fabric test data to energy functi ons, and two experiments we conducted to evaluate the approach. The fi rst experiment produces nonlinear mechanical data from the model. The second experiment compares photographs of three different kinds of dra ping cloth with visualizations of simulation results. The experiments show that we are able to reliably recover quantitative mechanical info rmation from the model and to reproduce the unique large-scale draping characteristics of a range of fabrics.