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 comprising a two-dimensional surface representation of a weave pattern of a textile;
determining ply curve geometry of individual plys of the weave pattern by:
determining individual center lines of individual curves by taking a tension of the individual curves into account; and/or
computing a rest state of the individual curves; and
generating a two-dimensional surface model of the weave pattern that simulates a three-dimensional appearance of the weave pattern on the two-dimensional surface model based on the ply curve geometry.
2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
computing the three-dimensional appearance of the weave pattern on the two-dimensional surface model.
3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the generating the two-dimensional surface model 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 including characterization of 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.
8. The method of claim 7 , wherein the flyaway geometry is specified by user input, or specified as being aligned with a ply tangent direction then specified to curve outwards away from a ply center.
9. 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.
10. The method of claim 9 , wherein the determining the ply curve geometry is further based on a ply count.
11. 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 comprising a two-dimensional surface representation of a weave pattern of a textile;
determine ply curve geometry of individual plys of the weave pattern by:
determining individual center lines of individual curves by taking a tension of the individual curves into account; and/or
computing a rest state of the individual curves; and
generate a two-dimensional surface model of the weave pattern that simulates a three-dimensional appearance of the weave pattern on the two-dimensional surface model textile based on the ply curve geometry.
12. The system of claim 11 , wherein the one or more physical processors are further configured by the machine-readable instructions to:
compute the three-dimensional appearance of the weave pattern on the two-dimensional surface model.
13. The system of claim 11 , wherein the one or more physical processors are further configured by the machine-readable instructions such that generating the two-dimensional surface model 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.
14. The system of claim 11 , 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 including characterization of one or more of color, transparency, or roughness of the textile.
15. The system of claim 11 , wherein the ply curve geometry specifies a round geometry.
16. The system of claim 11 , wherein the ply curve geometry specifies a flat geometry.
17. The system of claim 11 , 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.
18. The system of claim 17 , wherein the flyaway geometry is specified by the user input, or specified as being aligned with a ply tangent direction then specified to curve outwards away from a ply center.
19. The system of claim 11 , wherein determining the ply curve geometry further comprises rotating the individual curves around the individual center lines based on a rate of rotation.
20. The system of claim 19 , wherein determining the ply curve geometry is further based on a ply count.