A tool allows a user to create new designs for apparel and preview these designs in three dimensions before manufacture. Software and lasers are used in finishing apparel to produce a desired wear pattern or other design. Based on a laser input file with a pattern, a laser will burn the pattern onto apparel. With the tool, the user will be able to create, make changes, and view images of a design, in real time, before burning by a laser. Input to the tool includes fabric template images, laser input files, and damage input. The tool allows adding of tinting and adjusting of intensity and bright point. The user can also move, rotate, scale, and warp the image input.

Provided are an information processing apparatus, an information processing method and a non-transitory computer readable recording medium making it possible to display more appropriate reference designs.

A processing unit of the information processing apparatus acquires design data which pertains to a target design of an article which has a plurality of components, executes an extraction process of extracting at least one reference design from a plurality of reference designs of the article which is generated in advance on the basis of design data, makes a display unit display information pertaining to the at least one reference design which is extracted by the extraction process, and in the extraction process, derives a component similarity value which indicates a degree of similarity between each of some of or all reference designs in the plurality of reference designs and a target design for each of the plurality of components, derives a first index value on the basis of a plurality of component similarity values which consist of the component similarity values which are derived for each of the plurality of components, and extracts at least one reference design from the plurality of reference designs on the basis of the derived first index value.

A server includes a processor, programmed to responsive to a user selecting a vehicle for simulation, identify a minimum requirement and a preferred requirement for a plurality of features associated with the vehicle, obtain information of user hardware including a computing device and a mobile device in communication with each other, responsive to verifying the user hardware meets the preferred requirement for a first feature of the plurality of features, list the first feature on top of a feature list, and responsive to the user selecting the first feature, perform a simulation of the first feature via the computing device and the mobile device.

A tool allows a user to create new designs for apparel and preview these designs in three dimensions before manufacture. Software and lasers are used in finishing apparel to produce a desired wear pattern or other design. Based on a laser input file with a pattern, a laser will burn the pattern onto apparel. With the tool, the user will be able to create, make changes, and view images of a design, in real time, before burning by a laser. Input to the tool includes fabric template images, laser input files, and damage input. The tool allows adding of tinting and adjusting of intensity and bright point. The user can also move, rotate, scale, and warp the image input.

A cutting support apparatus includes an input unit that receives shoe last data, a storage in which a shape and a type of a plurality of plate-like parts are stored, a processor that generates a cutting pattern for cutting the plurality of plate-like parts from a plate-like member having a predetermined size based on the shoe last data and the shape of the plurality of plate-like parts, and an output unit that outputs the cutting pattern. The processor divides an area of the plate-like parts to be arranged in the plate-like member into a plurality of areas in accordance with the type of the plate-like parts that form the shoe last, determines positions of the plurality of plate-like parts to be arranged in each of the areas based on an arrangement condition, and generates the cutting pattern.

A footbed for use in footwear is provided. The footbed assembly includes a resilient, flexible material (e.g. EVA or PU foam) that extends the entire length of the footbed. a heel plate made from a material that is more rigid (plastic, carbon fiber) than the resilient foam attaches to the flexible material. The shape of the resilient footbed defines a geometry that provides support and comfort to the user by reducing peak pressures, improving cushioning, and enhancing foot support. The resilient foam and heel plate defines the shape of the midfoot R2 and rearfoot R1 of the footbed while the resilient flexible foam continues forward to define the shape of the forefoot R3 region of the footbed.

A method of and a system for propagating a configuration setting of a 3D model to other 3D models, the 3D model and the other 3Ds being part of a same 3D model category. The 5 method comprises dividing the 3D model into a first plurality of surfaces; associating to each one of the first plurality of surfaces, a unique surface identifier. For each one of the other 3D models, the method comprises dividing the one of the other 3D models into a second plurality of surfaces; establishing a correspondence; associating, for each one of the second plurality of surfaces corresponding to one of the first plurality of surfaces. The method also comprises 0 selecting the configuration setting of the 3D model; determining the unique identifier of the 3D model to which the configuration setting is to be applied; and propagating, the configuration setting to the other 3D models.

A computer-implemented method for automatically furnishing a 3D room based on user preferences including obtaining at least one spatial relations graph of a virtual 3D room and a set of user preferences, converting the set of user preferences into a set of target parameters, computing, for each spatial relations graph: a set of Key Performance Indicator values, and a KPI distance, automatically selecting at least one most promising spatial relations graph, instantiating the most promising spatial relations graph into the 3D room to be furnished, displaying the furnished virtual 3D room proposal to the user, receiving an update of the user preferences, and reiterating until a stopping criterion is fulfilled.

A tool allows a user to create new designs for apparel and preview these designs in three dimensions before manufacture. Software and lasers are used in finishing apparel to produce a desired wear pattern or other design. Based on a laser input file with a pattern, a laser will burn the pattern onto apparel. With the tool, the user will be able to create, make changes, and view images of a design, in real time, before burning by a laser. Input to the tool includes fabric template images, laser input files, and damage input. The tool allows adding of tinting and adjusting of intensity and bright point. The user can also move, rotate, scale, and warp the image input.

Tools and techniques are described to automate line testing when wiring devices (such as equipment and sensors) to controllers. Controllers have access to databases of the devices that are controlled by them, including wiring diagrams and protocols, such that the controller can automatically check that each wire responds correctly to stimulus from the controller. After testing, a reporting device rapidly shows the results of the line testing.