PATTERN MATCHING PROGRAM

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a pattern matching program capable of imparting a desired pattern to a continuous sheet body such as Western clothes having arbitrary three-dimensional shape without a break to materialize high design quality from both aspects of a pattern and shape. SOLUTION: In a type piece arrangement procedure, a plurality of type pieces are arranged side by side such that an area of a gap formed between outer shape lines of the plurality of type pieces becomes small. In a deformation procedure, meshes inside the type pieces are deformed such that the gap formed between the outer shape lines of the plurality of type pieces. In a pattern impartment procedure, a series of the pattern is imparted to the wholes of areas inside the outer shape lines of the plurality of type pieces. In an association procedure, coordinates of each constituent element of the series of the pattern and coordinates of each of the deformed meshes after movement are associated. In an inverse deformation procedure, each of the deformed meshes is returned to a coordinate position before the movement, the outer shape line of each the type piece is returned to a position before the movement, and each the constituent element of the pattern associated to each of the deformed meshes is moved to the coordinate position before the movement of the corresponding mesh. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT