3D scanning technology can also be applied for the production of personalized mannequins. In this case the anthropometric mannequin is built with regard of the measured sizes of a real person.
The most recent application of anthropometric mannequins resulted from the combination with virtual-try-on solutions. Virtual-try-on solutions are usually proposing fully parametrized general human body models, as for example from OptiTex14 (Figure 21 left). In this case the user can modify the digital body model by changing different parameters. By introducing real anthropometric data, these models can be transformed into virtual anthropometric mannequins (Figure 21 right, from IFTH18), offering the same advantages of the real anthropometric mannequins but in a virtual environment.
4.5 Made-to-measure
The last example of application of 3D human body digitization techniques for the fashion and apparel industry regards made-to-measure. In the classical approach of made-to-measure, a dress or a cloth item is produced specifically for a person, that has been previously manually measured. By using the technologies presented in section 2, together with measurement solutions presented in section 3, the process of manual measurement can be substituted by a digital process. Additionally, with the use of virtual-try-on solutions, the results can also be visualized and details can be chosen before the real production of the dress or cloth item. Figure 22 shows the example of made-to-measure jeans from 3D body scanning (from Bodymetrics19) and Figure 23 shows a made-to-measure application for footwear. In this case a 3D foot scanner Shoemaster20 is used to acquire in 3D the shape of the feet of a person. The software solution allows then a precise definition of made-to-measure shoes based on the measured 3D model of the feet.
