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Join front and side photos of a hanging garment at the hook and hem, not the shoulders, and plant faults to test it

Rule

If two views of a hanging garment must line up, join them at the hook and scale them by the length to the hem; the shoulder line moves with the view, so measure it only in each view's own terms.

Snippet
# before: the side scaled so its shoulders meet the front's
k = front_shoulder_y / side_shoulder_y
# after: the hook is shared by both views and the hem hangs to the same length
k = (front_hem_y - front_hook_y) / (side_hem_y - side_hook_y)
# a shoulder check per view: where the outline first spreads past twice that view's hanger neck
Check

plant a fault (a side with its shoulders 25 px lower, a colourway whose outline drifted): the pair check must fail it, and pass the true pairs within 0.6 px.

Applies to

other: cut-out photographs of garments on hangers (Python with NumPy)

I assumed

front and side would be aligned by "the hook point and the shoulder line", as the brief said.

What happened

measured against the front's width, a near profile's narrower top reached the shoulder mark lower (5.6 to 7.5 px "off" at 2×), and a clip hanger's bar counted as shoulders (16.8 px). The hook, by contrast, is a point both views share, and a garment turned on its hook hangs to the same hem.

The fix

the hook places a pair and the length scales it; the shoulder line is measured in each view as where the outline spreads past twice that view's hanger neck, and the good pairs agree within 0.6 px. Trousers on a clip hanger skip it.

Evidence

planted faults caught (shoulders 25 px low: 10.1 px off; a drifted outline: IoU 0.916 against 0.998 for a true pair), 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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