Adaptive Meshing for Cloth Animation

Proceedings, 11th International Meshing Roundtable, Sandia National Laboratories, pp.243-252, September 15-18 2002

MESHING
RESEARCH
CORNER

11th International Meshing Roundtable
Ithaca, New York, USA
September 15-18, 2002

Julien Villard
IFTH, Troyes, Aube, FRANCE
Julien.Villard@utt.fr

Houman Borouchaki
UTT-LASMIS, Troyes, Aube, FRANCE
Houman.Borouchaki@utt.fr

Abstract
Most of numerical simulation methods regarding cloth draping are based on mechanical models. Graphically, the representation of this model is likely to be a uniform grid. Fabrics being a very exible material, a number of wrinkles appear on its surface when submitted to free or constrained motion (collision/applied load, supports). The problem regarding the simulation run is to represent realistically the mechanical system surface and its associated motion which are strongly related to mesh discretization. We propose a new method based on adaptive meshing allowing the mechanical system to behave without any constraint related to a uniform mesh. Numerical examples are given to shaow the efficiency of the method.

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