Real-Time Dynamic Wrinkling of Coarse Animated Cloth

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Category

Method: real-time wrinkle synthesis for coarse cloth

Contributions

• Adds dynamic, believable wrinkles to coarse, low-triangle game cloth animation with no reference shape and noisy input.
• Uses a two-stage stretch-tensor estimation: graph-cut segmentation of coherent compressing/stable/stretching patches, then a per-triangle temporally adaptive reference shape and stretch tensor.
• Traces wrinkle paths across high-compression regions, enforces temporal persistence via global optimization, and generates geometry/normals on the GPU at 60 fps on console and PC hardware.

Context

A real-time, reference-free counterpart to example-based wrinkle methods such as Wang et al.'s Example-Based Wrinkle Synthesis for Clothing Animation.Builds on: Example-Based Wrinkle Synthesis for Clothing Animation

Correctness

Targets the hard case of noisy keyframed/coarse cloth with no rest reference, so wrinkles are plausible and temporally coherent rather than physically derived; quality depends on the stretch-tensor segmentation tracking the true compression regions.

Clarity

Moderately dense; a first pass conveys the pipeline stages, a second pass for the tensor estimation and wrinkle-path optimization.

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First pass for the two-stage tensor-to-wrinkle pipeline; second pass on the graph-cut segmentation and temporal optimization if implementing a real-time cloth-detail shader.