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Computational Design of Knit Templates

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Benjamin Jones,

Taylor Gotfrid,

Jennifer Mankoff,

Adriana SchulzAuthors Info & Claims

ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), Volume 41, Issue 2

Article No.: 16, Pages 1 - 16

https://doi.org/10.1145/3488006

Published: 06 December 2021 Publication History

Abstract

We present an interactive design system for knitting that allows users to create template patterns that can be fabricated using an industrial knitting machine. Our interactive design tool is novel in that it allows direct control of key knitting design axes we have identified in our formative study and does so consistently across the variations of an input parametric template geometry. This is achieved with two key technical advances. First, we present an interactive meshing tool that lets users build a coarse quadrilateral mesh that adheres to their knit design guidelines. This solution ensures consistency across the parameter space for further customization over shape variations and avoids helices, promoting knittability. Second, we lift and formalize low-level machine knitting constraints to the level of this coarse quad mesh. This enables us to not only guarantee hand- and machine-knittability, but also provides automatic design assistance through auto-completion and suggestions. We show the capabilities through a set of fabricated examples that illustrate the effectiveness of our approach in creating a wide variety of objects and interactively exploring the space of design variations.

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Computational Design of Knit Templates
1. Applied computing
  1. Operations research
    1. Computer-aided manufacturing
2. Computing methodologies
  1. Computer graphics
    1. Shape modeling
      1. Mesh geometry models
      2. Parametric curve and surface models

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Published: 06 December 2021

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