“Making Space for Cloth Simulations Using Energy Minimization”
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Entry Number: 42
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- Making Space for Cloth Simulations Using Energy Minimization
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Geometry interpenetrations are a common issue in creature effects workflows, particularly in cases which require simulations, for example hair and clothing. Production rigs often introduce self intersections in regions like armpits and elbows, which can cause ugly instabilities and undesirable behavior when they interfere with simulated objects such as garments. To achieve visually acceptable results, these simulations often require a small gap to allow sliding between opposing surfaces, and the process of making these modifications can often be quite manual. Here we present a production proven creature effects tool for resolving these issues automatically.
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Acknowledgements:
I would like to thank Matthew Overby for implementing the parallel Gauss-Seidel solver, Jimmy Gordon for helping me track down demonstration materials, Jason Iverson for his renders and Doug Roble, Nafees Bin Zafar and Gene Lin for their feedback.
