Patent ID: 7039486

Claim:
A method of viewing, archiving, and transmitting a garment model over a computer network, said method comprising the steps of: a) acquiring on a first computer system ( 10 ) a three-dimensional view of a specific human mannequin ( 6 ) having pre-determined morphological features, extracting from this three-dimensional view first data for categorizing a human physical profile, and storing said data, b) alternatively extracting said first data from a databank ( 7 ) in a second computer system ( 8 ), c) generating, on a third computer system ( 11 ), second data representing a three-dimensional specific virtual mannequin from said first data, d) automatically manufacturing, from said second data, using a fourth computer system ( 12 ), a specific physical mannequin ( 2 ), wherein said method comprises acquiring, from a fifth computer system ( 20 ), a first view of said specific physical mannequin ( 2 ) and representing said first view by means of third data corresponding to said first view.