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I'd love to see if I can do a 3d scan of my torso and have a sweater knit that exactly fits my frame. It'd be very interesting to see clothing made in this fash

• mcphage 9y ago
  Although, once you gain or lose a few pounds, it wouldn’t fit quite so exactly anymore.
  • jfoutz 9y ago
    I think knit cloth would do really well with small variations. If the target is form fitting, you want it to just touch everywhere. Knit is pretty tolerant of that.
• jayd16 9y ago
  I don't think this would be ideal for clothes, although I'm sure it would be pretty good. Clothes are designed to move. They have pleats and extra space. A perfectly form fitting sweater would have cause stress/stretching as you moved your arms.
  • kaitai 9y ago
    Similar methods are already in use in clothing design. Programs and patterns have the "extra space" built in; the jargon for it in knitwear is "ease" and it varies not only according to desired fit but also type of yarn/fiber. A garment with negative ease, for instance, needs to expand to fit onto your body, while a garment with positive ease is larger than the body measurements, and of course you could vary the ease within the garment. There is some interesting engineering that needs to happen near large joints -- as you say, a "perfectly form-fitting sweater" might have some difficulties at the armpits for instance as we have such a range of motion there. But these are well-studied problems!