Correlation between material properties and actual - simulated drape of textile products

Abstract

With the rapid advancement of digital technology, virtual fashion was born, signifying a milestone in the history of fashion. However, virtual fashion necessitates the accuracy of virtual garments. Therefore, it is necessary to verify that the software accurately reflects the fabric's properties. To accurately evaluate the software, this study altered a few material parameters and compared the results to the actual measured outputs. The selection of three categories of heavy, medium, and light fabrics for measurement is based on industry standards. Sampling based on physical experiments would require a great deal of time and resources; thus, this study proposes a solution to visualize the fabric properties with few inputs in order to surmount the drawbacks of the actual sampling method. The virtual method is utilized to establish fabric properties on the software and assess the drape of various fabric samples. The drape on CLO3D is determined by formatting the fabric's shadow contour, while the drape coefficient is calculated using ImageJ. This coefficient of drapery will be compared to actuality to determine if the software accurately represents the fabric's properties. The drape of the virtual fabric samples after being tried on the virtual mannequin, will be used to design basic garments. Based on the results, the appearance of the product will be evaluated by wearing fabric samples on the virtual mannequin. Increasing the weight of the fabric altered the skirt's appearance due to the higher coefficient of drapery. The increased drape coefficient made the fabric firmer, and the heaviest fabrics were the most rigid, resulting in a greater skirt spread. In contrast, the lightweight fabric exhibited a low coefficient of drape, resulting in softer products. Heavy fabric creates fewer folds. The folds created by the drape of light and medium fabric samples under the effect of their own weight on the CLO3D software are not as smooth and clear as the real samples.