A novel adaptive update method for over-stretching treatment in clothing animation

Virtual clothing animation is an important area in computer graphics and related applications. In this paper a clothing animation system is presented which incorporates a novel adaptive update method for over-stretching treatment. This method differs from the traditional treatment by adaptively updating those cloth vertices most likely caused by overstretching first. The key observation that makes this possible is that the vertices most likely to undergo over-stretching are usually those experiencing the greatest forces, and updating those vertices first can effectively solve the over-stretching issue. Simulation results show that the proposed method can cut the processing time by about a half and produce results that are visually appealing.