fabric objective measurements

Late ’90s saw some hectic development in creating digital avatar by algorithmically simulating the draping of woven fabric using faster computing power. The scientists were able to achieve high accuracy between an image of actual draping of fabric and computer simulated image of draping of virtual fabric. Notable to mention that the rationale behind success was a whole new bunch of measures (properties) of a fabric like thickness, bending rigidity, bending length, formability, extensibility, shear rigidity, expansion, relaxation shrinkage, etc., collectively called fabric objective measurements.