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A turn between a front and a side photo is thinnest at an end: a width rule is about the pictures, not the easing

Rule

If a turn drawn from a front and a side photo must never look thinner than a share of the front, check the side photo's width against that share; no easing changes the widths a turn shows.

Snippet
// before: the width rule treated as a matter of easing the turn
const visible = (W: number, D: number, theta: number) => W * Math.cos(theta) + D * Math.sin(theta);
// after: visible = sqrt(W² + D²) · cos(theta − atan2(D, W)), smallest at an end of 0..90°,
// so the rule is a check on the two pictures before anything is drawn
const thickEnough = (W: number, D: number, share = 1 / 3) => D >= share * W;
Check

evaluate visible(W, D, θ) at 1° steps from 0 to 90° for each piece: the smallest value is min(W, D) every time, and the largest is up to √(W² + D²) in between.

Applies to

other: any turn drawn from two photographs of one object (seen in React Native 0.86 with Reanimated 4.5)

I assumed

"never thinner than about a third of its front width" was a rule about the animation, met by easing the turn well.

What happened

drawn with the front revealed by cos θ and the side by sin θ, the visible width is W cos θ + D sin θ for a front width W and a side width D. That is √(W² + D²) · cos(θ − φ) with φ = atan2(D, W), which over 0–90° is smallest at one of its ends: W facing, D side-on. A hoodie side-on measured about 0.4 of its front (62 px against 136 px on a 2× crop) because the hood and the hanging sleeve give it depth; a flat shirt in true profile is far thinner.

Why

easing changes when each width is shown, never which widths are shown, so the minimum is fixed by the pictures.

The fix

settle the side view's angle and the garments' bulk before any picture is made. The side views were made with depth, and the turn hands over to the side photo at no less than 0.34 of the front's width (Math.max(0.88 * s.ws, 0.34 * s.wf) in perspectiveTurn).

Evidence

the turn strips at 24 angles (commit ac5146e); in every film since, the thinnest piece in any frame is 0.338 to 0.401 of its front.

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

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