Interactive Multimedia System for Chinese Traditional Costumes

The special natural and historical environment created representative Chinese clothing culture. The paper presents an interactive multimedia system based on Chinese traditional costumes. It can facilitate the clothing majors to have the self-study and understanding of the cutting and sewing features and also provide the learning platform to the people who has interests in clothing engineering. This System can fully demonstrate the characteristics of structures of the classic Chinese cheongsam. Three-dimensional virtual display technology is used to make and present the ancient garment, using two-dimensional garment CAD software to produce Chinese cheongsam pattern firstly, then using image processing software to process fabric images, and finally using CLO 3D system to produce three-dimensional model of clothing. In contrast with the traditional approaches of learning, the interactive system based on virtual reality technology shows the better intuitional and cognitive visual effect. Virtual reality technology is used as a tool to create the virtual clothing also as a part of the research work.