Systems and methods to compute the appearance of woven and knitted textiles at the ply-level
Systems and methods configured to determine appearance of woven and knitted textiles at the ply-level are presented herein. Exemplary embodiments may: obtain an input pattern of a textile, the input pattern comprising a two-dimensional weave pattern; obtain appearance information, the appearance information including one or more of color, transparency, or roughness; determine ply curve geometry based on ply-level fiber details making up individual plys; generate an image simulating an appearance of the textile based on the two-dimensional weave pattern, the appearance information, and the ply curve geometry so that the image simulating the appearance of the textile takes into account the ply-level fiber details; and/or perform other operations.
1. A method to simulate appearance of textiles in computer-generated imagery, the method comprising:
obtaining an input pattern of a textile, the input pattern comprising a two-dimensional representation of a weave pattern of the textile;
determining ply curve geometry based on ply-level fiber details making up individual plys;
generating an image simulating a three-dimensional appearance of the textile based on the two-dimensional representation of the weave pattern and the ply curve geometry; and
wherein the determining the ply curve geometry comprises determining individual center lines of individual curves by taking a tension of the individual curves into account and computing a rest state of the individual curves.
2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
causing an appearance model to receive the two-dimensional representation of the weave pattern and to compute the three-dimensional appearance of the textile on a two-dimensional surface.
3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the generating the mage simulating the three-din tensional appearance of the textile further includes modeling one or more of specular reflections through the ply curve geometry, specular transmission through the ply curve geometry, diffuse reflections through the ply curve geometry, or diffuse transmission through the ply curve geometry.
4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
effectuating presentation of a user interface configured to obtain user input, the user input comprising the input pattern and/or appearance information including one or more of color, transparency, or roughness of the textile.
5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the ply curve geometry specifies a round geometry.
6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the ply curve geometry specifies a flat geometry.
7. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
generating flyaway geometry of flyaway fibers representing fibers breaking out from threads; and
wherein:
the flyaway geometry is specified by a user as user input; or
the flyaway geometry is specified as being aligned with a ply tangent direction then specified to curve upwards.
8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the determining the ply curve geometry further comprises rotating the individual curves around the individual center lines based on a rate of rotation.
9. The method of claim 8 , wherein the determining the ply curve geometry further comprises obtaining a ply count.
10. A system configured to simulate appearance of textiles in computer-generated imagery, the system comprising:
one or more physical processors configured by machine-readable instructions to:
obtain an input pattern of a textile, the input pattern comprising a two-dimensional representation of a weave pattern of the textile;
determine ply curve geometry based on ply-level fiber details making up individual plys;
generate an image simulating a three-dimensional appearance of the textile based on the two-dimensional representation of the weave pattern and the ply curve geometry; and
wherein determining the ply curve geometry comprises determining individual center lines of individual curves by taking a tension of the individual curves into account and computing a rest state of the individual curves.
11. The system of claim 10 , wherein the one or more physical processors are further configured by the machine-readable instructions to:
cause an appearance model to receive the two-dimensional representation of the weave pattern and to compute the three-dimensional appearance of the textile on a two-dimensional surface.
12. The system of claim 10 , wherein generating the image simulating the three-dimensional appearance of the textile further includes modeling one or more of specular reflections through the ply curve geometry, specular transmission through the ply curve geometry, diffuse reflections through the ply curve geometry, or diffuse transmission through the ply curve geometry.
13. The system of claim 10 , wherein the one or more physical processors are further configured by the machine-readable instructions to:
effectuate presentation of a user interface configured to obtain user input, the user input comprising the input pattern and/or appearance information including one or more of color, transparency, or roughness of the textile.
14. The system of claim 10 , wherein the ply curve geometry specifies a round geometry.
15. The system of claim 10 , wherein the ply curve geometry specifies a flat geometry.
16. The system of claim 10 , wherein the one or more physical processors are further configured by the machine-readable instructions to:
generate flyaway geometry of flyaway fibers representing fibers breaking out from threads; and
wherein:
the flyaway geometry is specified by a user as user input; or
the flyaway geometry is specified as being aligned with a ply tangent direction then specified to curve upwards.
17. The system of claim 10 , wherein determining the ply curve geometry further comprises rotating the individual curves around the individual center lines based on a rate of rotation.
18. The system of claim 17 , wherein determining the ply curve geometry further comprises obtaining a ply count.