New algorithm of setting garment's seaming information rapidly in 3-D space

An improved algorithm is proposed to rapidly set the seaming information in the garment by means of the selected segments in the 3-D space. According to the algorithm,the low efficiency brought by previous methods can be improved and the problem of the seaming information's cluttered display in the 2-D background can be solved. Firstly,the garment hierarchical model is built to select the silhouette segments. Secondly,in order to decrease the human-computer interaction cost and improve the efficiency when setting seaming information, two-dimensional piece' s boundary is drawn and its border is determined. The relationship between border frame and boundary points is built. Then the seaming information between corresponding boundary points can be set automatically when a pair of border frames are selected. Finally,the seaming information in 3-D space is shown immediately after setting a pair of seaming correspondences every time to avoid the problem of its cluttered display in 2-D background. The experimental results show that the proposed method not only can raise the efficiency of seaminginformation setting but also can make the seaming-information be displayed more clearly and more visualy,and is suitable to set seaming information in different kinds of garments.