Can a cheap cloth drape score how well a flat pattern fits a body, and is a fitted pattern body-specific?
research/garment-pattern-fit
Position-based cloth drape scores a flat skirt-tube pattern on two synthetic elliptical bodies by strain and waist ease; the best waist is near the body's waist perimeter and a pattern fitted to one body fits the other clearly worse. Stylised; strains depend on mesh and solver.
What it found
A flat skirt-tube pattern is draped by position-based-dynamics cloth on two synthetic elliptical-section bodies and scored by circumferential strain and waist ease. The best waist is close to the body’s waist perimeter (×1.01 and ×1.03); tighter patterns strain, looser ones leave ease. A pattern optimised for one body costs 2.1–2.9 on the other against own optima of 0.15–0.75 (arbitrary cost units). Stylised: the body is a stack of ellipses, the cost weights are assumptions, the hem optimum sits at the edge of the search range, and the optimum cost moves from 0.75 to 1.34 on a finer mesh.
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