Dynamic Wrinkling on Coarsely-Meshed Cloth

Rupesh Kumar, Sabhya Khurana, Rahul Narain

Indian Institute of Technology Delhi

Abstract

We present a technique for simulating detailed cloth dynamics on coarse meshes at interactive rates, by coupling the base mesh simulation with dynamic wrinkles in a physically consistent manner. Building on the wrinkle parameterization introduced by Chen et al. 2021, we introduce a dynamics model for a cloth sheet represented as a superposition of a base surface and a wrinkle distribution parameterized by spatially varying amplitude and frequency. Our model incorporates two-way coupling of the base surface and the wrinkle parameters, allowing the base deformation to drive emergence of wrinkles and permitting compression of the base surface in turn. To deform the mesh using the computed wrinkle parameters, we also introduce a simple phase reconstruction strategy that produces dynamically evolving, temporally coherent wrinkles on the simulated mesh.

Overview

teaser — We present a simulation pipeline that extends tension-field wrinkles (TFW) [CCK*21] for dynamic wrinkling on coarse meshes. This figure compares dynamic simulations of a cloth piece falling onto a sphere under gravity. Top: initial state and mesh discretization. Bottom: an intermediate simulation frame taken as the cloth falls onto the sphere.

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BibTeX

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@article{10.1111:cgf.70564,
journal = {Computer Graphics Forum},
title = {{Dynamic Wrinkling on Coarsely Meshed Cloth}},
author = {Kumar, R. and Khurana, S. and Narain, R.},
year = {2026},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association},
ISSN = {1467-8659},
DOI = {10.1111/cgf.70564}
}