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From: kay.so.or, [DNS_Address]
Subject: This Dress Is Made From 3-D Printed Plastic, But Flows Like Fabric
URL: http://www.wired.com/2014/12/dress-made-3-d-printed-plastic-flows-like-fabric/
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The design studio Nervous System has created a novel process that allows a 3-D printed dress to move and sway like real fabric. The bespoke software behind it, called Kinematics, combines origami techniques with novel approaches to 3-D printing, pushing the technology’s limits. Instead of pinning fabric to a dress form, a Kinematics garment starts as a 3-D model in a CAD program. Kinematics breaks the model down into tessellated, triangular segments of varying sizes. Designers can control the size, placement, and quantity of the triangles in a Javascript-based design tool and preview how the changes will impact the polygonal pinafore. Once the designer is satisfied, algorithms add hinges to the triangles uniting the garment into a single piece and compress the design into the smallest possible shape to optimize the printing process, often reducing the volume by 85 percent. the rest of the article and pictures at the link... |
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From: marc / berkeley, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Amazing
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It definitely is a warm weather dress, Lol! Thanks Kay! --M |
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