A Particle-Based Model for Simulating the Draping Behavior of Woven Cloth

TLDR

The paper presents a physically based technique for simulating the draping of various woven fabrics. The method uses an interacting‑particle model grounded in cloth microstructure, calibrating energy functions with empirical fabric test data, and is evaluated through two experiments. The experiments confirm that the model reliably recovers quantitative mechanical data and reproduces the distinctive large‑scale draping behavior of different fabrics.

Abstract

We demonstrate a physically based technique for producing draping simulations of a variety of woven fabrics. Our approach employs an interacting-particle model based on the microstructure of woven cloth, rather than using a continuum approx imation. Empirical data from a fabric testing device are used to tune energy functions within the model. We describe the model, how we convert the fabric test data to energy functions, and two experiments we conducted to evaluate the approach. The first experiment produces nonlinear mechanical data from the model. The second exper iment compares photographs of three different kinds of draping cloth with visualizations of simulation results. The experiments show that we are able to reliably recover quan titative mechanical information from the model and to reproduce the unique large- scale draping characteristics of a range of fabrics.