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A Compiler for 3D Machine Knitting
- kozak 10y agoI wonder how does it compare with off-the-shelf commercial knitting design software.
- jthacker 10y agoAgreed. How are knitted objects normally made on these machines? Are they using the "assembly" instructions?
- frank0631 10y agoReminds me of the openKnit project. http://openknit.org/ http://openknit.org/
- vessenes 10y agoThey have a new, soon-to-be-launched kickstarter company at http://kniterate.com http://kniterate.com. I really, really want a machine as described that works.
- rosalinekarr 10y agoDisney Research comes up with some pretty cool stuff. I loved their 3d printed speaker idea from a couple years ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zralu3wYUTU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zralu3wYUTU
- vessenes 10y agoI would really love it if this were paired with a renderer. As a knitter, I often want to see what designs knit out to without actually, you know, knitting.
- GregBuchholz 10y agoIs there a 3D Knitting service, similar in spirit to Shapeways, that allows you to send a design file of some sort, and they'll send you a knitted item?
- damptowel 10y agoThis seems like a great startup opportunity...
- amadeuspzs 10y agoFantastic initiative. My wife works in knitwear and I've been cooking up a disruptor for what is frankly a lagging industry. Current best-in-class software can be seen at e.g. http://www.stoll.com/stoll_software_solutions_en_4/pattern_software_m1plus/3_1 http://www.stoll.com/stoll_software_solutions_en_4/pattern_s...
- sedachv 10y agoIs there more you can share at the moment? My wife sometimes works with Stoll software and we are thinking about buying a double bed from them in the near future.
- jeffersonheard 10y agoI want to see this paired with a Kinect. Walk into a store, select a sweater off the rack that you like. Scan the tag at a kiosk. Get scanned. Customize the fit and color. Come back in a couple of hours with a new garment.
- falsedan 10y agoYou don't need a compiler for that. Simple patterns have increase/decrease points to adjust to the normal variations in the human body shape. You'd need a compiler if you wanted matching sweaters for your dog, chicken, and you.
- canada_dry 10y agoCompiler... 3D... and Knitting all in the same sentence. What a time to be alive.
- theophrastus 10y agoJust think of the nice bit of historical symmetry in that what is seen to have been the first programmable machine was a loom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacquard_loom#Importance_in_computing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacquard_loom#Importance_in_co...
- yzh 10y agoCombined with proper user body data collection techniques, this could create real customized apparel.
- agumonkey 10y agoMost of Disney research is as sophisticated as cute.
- chris_va 10y agoJust don't turn on -funroll-loops.
- jfoutz 10y agoReminds me of the plush toy cloth pattern generator, http://www.geocities.jp/igarashi_lab/plushie/index-e.html http://www.geocities.jp/igarashi_lab/plushie/index-e.html This would create a pattern, they have an example of sewn cloth, and inflatable balloons they built. which was kind of a decendent of teddy 3d http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~jacobson/seminar/igarashi-et-al-1999.pdf http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~jacobson/seminar/igarashi-et-al-1... This is a lot more about the UI (which i still think is amazing 17 years later), not so much about the compiler.