From the reviews:
“This book is a clear must for the virtual human model animation specialist and should become a bible for the developers of software systems for the garment industry. … This work is a rare reading pleasure for the computer scientist … . Written in a high level style which guarantees access to a wide audience of readers, the book includes a rich list of references … . These references allow the interested computer scientist to acquire the details of the techniques described on the text.” (Cesar Alberto Bravo Pariente, The IEEE Latin America and the Caribbean Magazine, Vol. 22 (3), June, 2011)Modeling and Simulating Bodies and Garments
herausgegeben von Nadia Magnenat-ThalmannThis book contains the research on modeling bodies, cloth and character based adaptation performed during the last 3 years at MIRALab at the University of Geneva. More than ten researchers have worked together in order to reach a truly 3D Virtual Try On. What we mean by Virtual Try On is the possibility of anyone to give dimensions on her predefined body and obtain her own sized shape body, select a 3D cloth and see oneself animated in Real-Time, walking along a catwalk. Some systems exist today but are unable to adapt to body dimensions, have no real-time animation of body and clothes. A truly system on the web of Virtual Try On does not exist so far. This book is an attempt to explain how to build a 3D Virtual Try On system which is now very much in demand in the clothing industry. To describe this work, the book is divided into five chapters. The first chapter contains a brief historical background of general deformation methods. It ends with a section on the 3D human body scanner systems that are used both for rapid p- totyping and statistical analyses of the human body size variations.
