Three-dimensional scanning of a figure as the basis for mass customization of industrial clothing collections

Abstract

The subject of research is clothing development according to individual design chosen by a consumer. The application of the concept of mass customization has become one of the most high-demanded areas of development in light industry. Manufacturers invest heavily in the development of software products, which can help the consumer to choose the right-sized and well-fitting clothes from industrial collections on manufacturers’ websites. While constructing clothing designs on an individual order, and then while manufacturing process under conditions of industrial flow production, exact body dimensions are extremely important. The world light industry is actively using digital technologies in order to measure shapes and determine body features (made-to-measure systems). Such systems make it possible to better take into account the individual characteristics of customers, which allow designing high-quality clothing, characterized by a good fit on a figure of a particular consumer. There is a developed system for obtaining a digital image of a shape, which based on the use of depth sensors. An experimental study of the anthropometric matching of clothes with a figure in a virtual environment was carried out by comparing scanned three-dimensional models of figures with and without clothes. The permissible values of projection gaps were revealed, within them the product visually corresponds to a figure. An approach where there is an information which consists of customers’ preferences, dimensional characteristics, shape and body type in specially created databases, which are used when it is necessary to help to create clothing products that are best suited to the consumer in size and design, is proposed.