Voluminal reconstruction of the bodies applied to the cloth trade

The clothes industry in the developed countries must generate sufficient value added to justify a higher price than the articles produced in great quantity and at low prices in the countries with good wages. The offer of clothing made to measure, at a reasonable price compared with mass‐produced clothing, can constitute an interesting opportunity for the clothes trade. The use of data processing can help to achieve this goal. This assumes that the manufacturer has a virtual model of the customer. This model combined with the knowledge of the behaviour of the support/clothing couple allows the data‐processing creation of clothing specific to the customer. It is necessary to have a precise and instantaneous acquisition technique. Whatever the principle of measurement, several sensors are necessary to measure the totality of a human body. The results obtained are then like a scatter plot. Moreover, this scatter plot has a non‐uniform density according to the measured zone. The surface reconstruction finds these limits in such a situation. In addition, the voluminal reconstruction allows adaptation to this situation by linking spatially the elements describing the shape of the body. Moreover, the use of tetrahedrons allows a modeling of the deformation of the human body. To adapt to the diversity of the scatter plot a method has been developed called the sculptor method. Initially a triangulation gives the convex shape of the scatter plot. It is necessary to remove the superfluous tetrahedrons. To carry out this operation, this form is produced by spheres whose size is adapted. This makes possible a convex solid, which sticks to the scatter plot. This operation shows that this method allows one to reconstruct a body clothed or not with good fidelity.