Research the Intelligent Design and Simulation System of Tujia Brocade

Protection and inheriting of the traditional brocade crafts are the focusing problems of the current social. Computer aided design is one of the directions of inheriting the traditional brocade crafts. In this paper, we focus on the Tujia brocade, which is one of the famous Chinese traditional brocade, to research the layout- designing and appearance-simulation techniques. We propose an intelligent design and simulation model of Tujia brocade. The design combination technique based on pattern and skeleton is used to design a digital layout of Tujia brocade. We employ the Octree to quantitate the color map of designed layout and extract the main color map based on kmeans cluster. We render each region, which is segmented by main color map, with yarn structure template based on cubic convolution interpolation algorithm. Finally, we can generate out the appearance of designed layout with good fabric material. To demonstrate the applicability and validity, our method generates several Tujia brocade layouts and simulates its appearance. We also analyze the designed and simulate results compared with some traditional methods.