Automatic Machine Knitting of 3D Meshes
Abstract
We present the first computational approach that can transform 3D meshes, created by traditional modeling programs, directly into instructions for a computer-controlled knitting machine. Knitting machines are able to robustly and repeatably form knitted 3D surfaces from yarn, but have many constraints on what they can fabricate. Given user-defined starting and ending points on an input mesh, our system incrementally builds a helix-free, quad-dominant mesh with uniform edge lengths, runs a tracing procedure over this mesh to generate a knitting path, and schedules the knitting instructions for this path in a way that is compatible with machine constraints. We demonstrate our approach on a wide range of 3D meshes.
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Vidya Narayanan, Lea Albaugh, Jessica Hodgins, Stelian Coros, and James McCann. 2018. Automatic Machine Knitting of 3D Meshes. ACM Trans. Graph. 37, 3, Article 35 (August 2018), 15 pages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3186265
@article{2018-autoknit,
author = {Narayanan, Vidya and Albaugh, Lea and Hodgins, Jessica and Coros, Stelian and McCann, James},
title = {Automatic Machine Knitting of 3D Meshes},
journal = {ACM Trans. Graph.},
issue_date = {August 2018},
volume = {37},
number = {3},
month = aug,
year = {2018},
issn = {0730-0301},
pages = {35:1--35:15},
articleno = {35},
numpages = {15},
url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3186265},
doi = {10.1145/3186265},
acmid = {3186265},
publisher = {ACM},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
keywords = {3D printing, CAM, Knitting, automatic knitting},
}