Subspace clothing simulation using adaptive bases

A computer product comprising a non-transitory computer readable medium storing a plurality of instructions that when executed control a computer system to generate animation data of deformable surface, the instructions comprising:

• receiving results of simulations of the deformable surface at a plurality of training poses, the results at a training pose comprising one or more configurations of the deformable surface, wherein a configuration specifies positions of a plurality of locations on the deformable surface;
• receiving results of clustering the training poses into a plurality of clusters, each cluster comprising one or more of the plurality of training poses, wherein the results include, for each cluster, determining one or more representative poses of the cluster, determining a local basis for a subspace of the configurations associated with the cluster based on the one or more representative poses of the cluster;
• receiving a new pose corresponding to a particular multidimensional point in pose space;
• identifying one or more clusters based on a distance in pose space from the new pose to each of the one or more clusters;
• constructing an adapted basis from the one or more local bases of the identified clusters;
• determining the positions of the plurality of locations on the deformable surface for the new pose using the adapted basis.