Real-Time Cloth Simulation for Hula Costume CAD Development

Abstract

In recent years, 3D computer graphics (3DCG) technology has been applied in various fields such as AR technology, VR technology, movies, games, and virtual fitting of clothes. Among them, there is the problem of contact between clothing and other objects (such as the body). In this paper, we focus on that problem. Since this research is part of the development of CAD for the design of hula costumes, and since we assume that the users of the CAD will have PCs with not very high performance, we took an approach that does not require a large amount of computation. As a representation of the cloth, we used a mass-spring model in which springs and mass points are connected in a grid. We also compared how the three methods of calculating position and velocity, Euler method, FB Euler method, and Runge-Kutta method, affect the simulation results.