Patent ID: 7379786

Claim:
A method for simulating wearing of a knit garment on a human model, the human model having a plurality of polygons on a surface of the human model and an axis, the method comprising the steps of: positioning a virtual knit garment tentatively with respect to the human model in such a way that the axis of the human model passes through an interior of the virtual knit garment; fitting the tentatively positioned virtual knit garment to the human model by expanding/shrinking the virtual knit garment toward the axis; associating each point of the virtual knit garment with the polygons of the human model, wherein a perpendicular line from said each point towards the axis is obtained, a polygon intersecting the perpendicular line is obtained, and said each point associates with the polygon; and initiating obtaining a polygon associated with a subsequent point from a polygon associated with a neighboring point which is already obtained.