Cloth Simulation by Gunther Schatz 2004

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In the last 2 years digital cloth simulation has made a giant leap forward. New software packages like SYFLEX, used in the latest >Lord of the Rings< or >Hellboy<, allow highly realistic cloth animations.

>The properties of a cloth, such as its mass or stiffness, can be modified using texture maps. This way we can control the behavior of a garment very precisely,< Schatz explains.

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