The paper presents a method that takes a target 3D shape and generates a flat embroidery stitching pattern with heat-shrinkable polyester threads. When heated, the threads shrink and the fabric contracts into the target 3D shape.
The paper introduces a method for utilizing an embroidery technique called smocking to realize freeform surfaces from a flat piece of fabric. By combining directional field computation and continuous planar graph optimization, our algorithm outputs a stitching pattern that generates an approximation of the target shape upon stitching.
The paper presents a method for digitally previewing a smocking pattern design by formulating smocking as a graph embedding and shape deformation problem.