Abstract: A footwear digitization system and method configured to determine physical attributes for any given footwear or other cut-and-stitched item, including dimensional and spatial properties, optical attributes, and assembly information, and utilizing those properties and attributes to generate a digital three-dimensional model thereof. The invention relates generally to the field of garment digitization, and the subsequent production of computer-generated images depicting the (digitized) garment at a level of quality comparable to studio photographs of the real garment article.

Abstract: An on-line garment fit portrayal system configured to operate on a specialized server linked over a network to at least one web-enabled player device capable of common image format display is described. The system comprises a server-side garment model storage capability containing one or more garments, with parameters for each garment; a server-side modeler mechanism for generating a three-dimensional body model from individual body data, the body model data being stored in a body model storage capability; a server-side simulator mechanism coupled with the garment model storage capability and the body model storage capability for simulating a three-dimensional form fit of a garment in the garment model storage capability onto a stored body model, the simulator mechanism producing a portrayal subject model; and a server-side rendering mechanism coupled with the simulator mechanism for portraying on a web-enabled device a three-dimensional form fit of the garment on the body model.