ith the Winter Olympics coming to Turin in February, 2006, bringing a million spectators and thousands of journalists, articles that describe this magnificent Italian city are becoming commonplace. Many journalists rightly feel that they should mention the city’s most famous artifact, the Shroud of Turin. And indeed they should. But what to write? Because the shroud is a religious object, belie...

In article number 2001973, Li-Zhen Fan and co-workers report a carbonized metal–organic framework nanorod modified carbon cloth for stable lithium metal anodes. Benefiting from the advantages of an interconnected carbon-based skeleton lithiophilic nanostructured layer, NRA-CC electrode provides significant improvements in electrochemical performance safety, which fresh insight into design princ...

Woven cloth can commonly be seen in daily life and also in animation. Unless prevented in some way, woven cloth usually frays at the edges. However, in computer graphics, woven cloth is typically modeled as a continuum sheet, which is not suitable for representing frays. This paper proposes a model that allows yarn movement and slippage during cloth tearing. Drawing upon techniques from textile...

In this paper we present a very fast method for body-cloth animation. The usual bottle-neck in cloth simulation performance is collision detection, which becomes more difficult to solve when a complex geometry, like a human body, is involved. Recent image based methods, that use depth images to detect collisions, usually relays on CPU for collision correction. In our work we implement a GPU bas...

Cloth has traditionally been simulated on a static mesh composed of a uniform grid of nodes. Since a coarse mesh cannot generally capture fine wrinkles, realistic cloth simulation relies on a fine grid of nodes that is expensive to simulate. However, fine wrinkles are often localized to relatively small portions of a mesh. We introduce an adaptive method that locally refines cloth where wrinkle...

This project presents a system to generate realistic cloth simulations by acquiring the geometry and a surface parameterization of real cloth from a captured video stream. Stereo processing with a technique for disparity map hole filling and smoothing is used to recover the geometry of the cloth. Image feature matching using SIFT features is combined with a surface interpolation method to deter...