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The Physics Of Haute Couture, Natue Science update
 









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How's it hanging? Maths can tell you
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(...) cloth is so stiff in the two dimensions that make up the plane of the
cloth, but very floppy when it comes to folding in the third dimension. What
also makes the maths so hard is that when a sheet of thin fabric crumples,
nearly all the deformation gets concentrated into a single point or line, where
the fabric kinks sharply. (...)
It gets even harder once the wearer starts to move, as their motion sets up a
complex sequence of kinking and unkinking.Editor's Note: Actually, one might
suspect that this sudden interest in fashion is just a clever move by some
physics nerds to raise funding for their research in 
brane cosmology.
Source: The Physics Of Haute Couture[
http://www.nature.com/nsu/040202/040202-7.html ], Philip Ball, Nature Science
Update, 04/02/04

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