Abstract
It is very important to grasp a human body three dimensionally in clothe designing, but this method is not yet established. We investigated, therefore, a method to know the length of curve and area of a patch drawn on the human body surface using moiré contourgraphy.
After confirming the accuracy of this method, we computed curve lengths and patch areas on the back of a young man in normal static posture and four types of arm pose (lateral horizontal elevation, forward horizontal elevation, 170° upward elevation, contraction of pectoral muscles).
The results were as follows :
1) In normal static posture, the curve lengths obtained by this method were nearly equal to those obtained by Martin's method. The each resultant length of the same curve derived from the photographies which were taken in the different directions showed slight difference caused by physiological factors such as breathing.
2) We were able to recognize the changes of curve lengths and patch areas according the arm poses by means of moiré contourgraphy.
