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Level a cut-out of a hanging garment by physics: turn it until its alpha centroid is straight below the hook

Rule

If a garment cut-out has no horizontal line to level by (a hanger hidden in the cloth, an edge-on side view), turn it about its hook until its alpha-weighted centroid is directly below the hook.

Snippet
# before: level the hanger's bar (often hidden, and edge-on in a side view)
angle = bar_angle(img)
# after: at rest a hanging body's centre of mass is straight below its pivot
ys, xs = np.nonzero(alpha > 0)
w = alpha[ys, xs]
cx, cy = (xs * w).sum() / w.sum(), (ys * w).sum() / w.sum()
angle = np.degrees(np.arctan2(cx - hook_x, cy - hook_y))  # turn by -angle about the hook
Check

draw a test picture 1.5° off: the measure reads about 1.6°, and after the turn the master measures within ±0.02°.

Applies to

other: cut-out pictures of anything hanging from one point (Python with NumPy)

I assumed

levelling a cut-out means making its hanger horizontal.

What happened

the hanger is mostly hidden inside the garment, and in a side view it is edge-on, so there was often no line to measure at all.

Why

a body hanging from a pivot comes to rest with its centre of mass directly below the pivot, in any view.

The fix

each picture is turned about its hook until its alpha-weighted centroid is straight below it. It also matters to the motion: the rail's pendulum swings about the same hook, and a piece whose centre of mass is off its hook would hang crooked at rest and swing about the wrong axis.

Evidence

a stand-in drawn 1.5° off measured 1.64 to 1.71° and was turned back; on the master 0.01° and −0.02° remain (commit ac5146e).

Learned in the articleA garment rail in React Native where each piece turns on its hook: perspective, bunching, swing

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