Irregular Knitting Patterns
Pattern generation in automated knitting systems has always relied on following knit intrinsic row-column structures, resulting in traditional, grid-like patterns (Narayanan et al. 2018). In order to break from these conventions, this projects investigates current 3D knitting methodogolies to learn and introduce a new approach to create irregular knitting patterns of any non-grid mesh 3D geometry, using a remeshing tool and a crawling algorithm as a segmentation method.
Institution
Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL
Role
Graduate Student, Dissertation
Location + Year
London, UK - 2019
Pattern generation in automated knitting systems has always relied on following knit intrinsic row-column structures, resulting in traditional, grid-like patterns (Narayanan et al. 2018). In order to break from these conventions, this projects investigates current 3D knitting methodogolies to learn and introduce a new approach to create irregular knitting patterns of any non-grid mesh 3D geometry, using a remeshing tool and a crawling algorithm as a segmentation method.
Input Geometry Remeshing Segmented Geometry Stitched Pipeline
Mesh Face culling closest neighbor centroid
Storing mesh faces and checking to avoid duplicates
Mesh strip segmentation
Stitch Geometry
Knitting Results