Structure-aware synthesis for predictive woven fabric appearance

Woven fabrics have a wide range of appearance determined by their small-scale 3D structure. Accurately modeling this structural detail can produce highly realistic renderings of fabrics and is critical for predictive rendering of fabric appearance. But building these yarnlevel volumetric models is challenging. Procedural techniques are manually intensive, and fail to capture the naturally arising irregularities which contribute significantly to the overall appearance of cloth. Techniques that acquire the detailed 3D structure of real fabric samples are constrained only to model the scanned samples and cannot represent different fabric designs. This paper presents a new approach to creating volumetric models of woven cloth, which starts with user-specified fabric designs and produces models that correctly capture the yarn-level structural details of cloth. We create a small database of volumetric exemplars by scanning fabric samples with simple weave structures. To build an output mo...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2012
• Where: TOG
• Authors: Shuang Zhao, Wenzel Jakob, Steve Marschner, Kavita Bala
• Keywords: Communications, Fabric Appearance, Realistic Renderings, Three Dimensional Graphics, TOG 2012