Example-based wrinkle synthesis for clothing animation

This paper describes a method for animating the appearance of clothing, such as pants or a shirt, that fits closely to a figure’s body. Compared to flowing cloth, such as loose dresses or capes, these types of garments involve nearly continuous collision contact and small wrinkles, that can be troublesome for traditional cloth simulation methods. Based on the observation that the wrinkles in closefitting clothing behave in a predominantly kinematic fashion, we have developed an example-based wrinkle synthesis technique. Our method drives wrinkle generation from the pose of the figure’s kinematic skeleton. This approach allows high quality clothing wrinkles to be combined with a coarse cloth simulation that computes the global and dynamic aspects of the clothing motion. While the combined results do not exactly match a high-resolution reference simulation, they do capture many of the characteristic fine-scale features and wrinkles. Further, the combined system runs at interac...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2010
• Where: SIGGRAPH
• Authors: Huamin Wang, Florian Hecht, Ravi Ramamoorthi, James O'Brien
• Keywords: Cloth Simulation, Clothing Wrinkles, Computer Graphics, SIGGRAPH 2010, Wrinkle Synthesis