Animating Wrinkles by Example on Non-Skinned Cloth

Area of Science:

• Computer Graphics
• Computational Physics
• Animation

Background:

• Simulating detailed cloth wrinkles is computationally intensive.
• Existing methods may be limited to specific cloth types or lack efficiency.

Purpose of the Study:

• To develop a fast, example-based algorithm for animating plausible cloth wrinkles.
• To create a method applicable to diverse cloth types beyond skinning-defined garments.

Main Methods:

• Establishing a correspondence between low and high-resolution cloth deformations during training and synthesis.
• Synthesizing high-resolution wrinkles based on low-resolution cloth deformation and example poses.

Main Results:

• Demonstrated animation of plausible high-resolution cloth wrinkles.
• Achieved high frame rates suitable for real-time applications like video games.

Conclusions:

• The proposed algorithm offers an efficient solution for realistic cloth wrinkle animation.
• The method's pose-independent nature broadens its applicability to various cloth simulations.