Hmmm: actually cloth simulation is constrained relative to hair simulation. (It's an orderly grid -- a Chebyshev net? -- rather than spaghetti) With a simple Ve

Hmmm: actually cloth simulation is constrained relative to hair simulation. (It's an orderly grid -- a Chebyshev net? -- rather than spaghetti) With a simple Verlet integrator you can animate a "fishing net" of points with no difficulty -- because of the direct links between them. Someone else will have to fill in the details of recent research. I remember a paper called "Large Steps in Cloth Simulation" which aimed to remove the need for fine detail in simulations.