A survey of self-collision detection for dynamic cloth interaction in virtual environment

Abstract

Simulating the natural motion of cloth is a main component in virtual character animation. In cloth simulation, there are many researchers interest to study the structure and their characteristics. It is because cloth has a few unique features consist of flexible, elastic and easy to pleat and shape. Their characteristics are very complex to simulate and difficult to elaborate and making their prediction. This paper presents a research survey on self-collision detection for cloth simulation within the computer graphics research community. This research has variety of techniques have been suggested by numerous researchers. This paper tries to provide a comprehensive survey of all self-collision detection techniques from a unified viewpoint. So that the explanation and discussion will cover various topics such as issues, designs and performances.