Cotton Fabric Rip

How it's made

Source

tension breaks successive cotton yarns. Irregular 1–3 ms noise attacks decay over 6–22 ms; 50–120 overlapping yarn failures per second form a rough rip rather than isolated impact clicks.

Body

cotton is highly damped, with broad friction bands at 0.5–1.5 and 2–6 kHz, not ringing modes. A quieter pink-noise layer follows the pulling hand; a low-pass at 6–9 kHz softens exposed fibres.

Envelope

a 35 ms tension onset leads into an accelerating 0.44–0.98 s tear. Uneven bundles interrupt the pull, then the final yarns release into 65 ms of soft cloth movement. No room tail is added.

Layers

overlapping filtered noise grains provide thread detail; a dense filtered impulse texture adds microscopic fibre roughness beneath them. All layers share the changing bundle pressure.

Variation

seeded timing, bandwidth, grain duration and strength vary each yarn. Speed changes length; weave changes grain density and low-mid body, brightness changes friction colour, snag adds pauses.

Presets

a brisk narrow strip, a thick cotton tear, a hesitant snagged pull and a light worn sheet.

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