The Most Realistic Renderings Of Cloth We've Ever Seen
Rendered Cloth Materials pictured: On the top row, from left to right, linen plain, silk crepe de chine, the front side of polyester satin charmeuse fabric, and the back side of the polyester satin charmeuse. On bottom, silk-shot fabric, velvet, an imaginary fabric made of silk and polyester threads with a shantung weaving pattern, and an imaginary fabric with asymmetric peaks, done in a mirror-like way. Iman Sadeghi et. al., Jacobs School of Engineering/UC San Diego A new technique makes for some very comfy-looking pillows, which could be useful in video games and animation. It's complicated for artists and designers to replicate how light plays off the folds of cloth or fabric. Some research has already gone into how to more accurately and efficiently reproduce those materials in computer renderings, and now a computer-sci team is suggesting a different way--and the results don't look half-bad. Google software engineer Iman Sadeghi previously worked...