Computer-aided Industrial Design Support System for Cuticle Material Used in Car Seats

Abstract

During the design process for manufacturing car seats, models of products made from cloth are created by CAD/CAM computer graphics. Among car and parts makers, industrial design using computers is called computer-aided industrial design (CAID), and some examples of CAID have practical use in designing solid exterior sells for cars. However, for models of products made from cloth, few have been put to practical use, because creating images with cloth reflection characteristics is difficult. We developed a method for creating computer graphics of cloth-covered car seats using a bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF) and computer color matching (CCM).