“Simulating Cloth Using Bilinear Elements” by Schweickart and Zhai
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Entry Number: 49
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- Simulating Cloth Using Bilinear Elements
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The most widely used cloth simulation algorithms within the computer graphics community are defined exclusively for triangle meshes. However, assets used in production are often made up of non-planar quadrilaterals. Dividing these elements into triangles and then mapping the displacements back to the original mesh results in faceting and tent-like artifacts when quadrilaterals are rendered as bilinear patches. We propose a method to simulate cloth dynamics on quadrilateral meshes directly, drawing on the well studied Koiter thin sheet model [Koiter 1960] to define consistent elastic energies for linear and bilinear elements. The algorithm elides the need for artifact-prone geometric mapping, and has computation times similar to its fully triangular counterpart.
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Acknowledgements:
We would like to thank the Simulation department and leadership at Weta Digital for their support.
