Automatic Machine Knitting of 3D Meshes

What about applying this to making breast prostheses, whether they be automatically or manually knitted? It might allow a better fit and match to the existing shape if a pattern could be generated on a per-patient basis?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.knittedknockers.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.knittedknockers.org&#x2F;</a>

Things your Grandma said while knitting ... never:<p>&gt; The function is feasible for machine knitting if its Reeb graph has an upward planar embedding.

I&#x27;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&#x27;d be very interesting to see clothing made in this fashion.

Didn&#x27;t know CMU had a Textile Lab! Looks to be under the Robotics Institute, or affiliated. Very interesting, thanks!

This could be very useful for weaving carbon fiber composite parts. Orienting the fibers to make a strong part is quite an art.

Cool - I can have a Utah teapot cosy for my teapot.

I love these machines they’re so much fun to watch (for me at least they’re still in “how on earth did someone work out how to make this?” Part of my brain)<p>I recall someone publishing something similar a few years ago - I wonder how this compares?

Very interesting. Could make a fun hobby out of it. Maybe use it to construct woven carbon fiber objects?

Rather odd that they&#x27;re only showing the video as a downloadable MP4 file. I didn&#x27;t see a copyright notice, so I put it up on YouTube.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;R3Ax7U5dvbc" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;R3Ax7U5dvbc</a><p>Note that the video is silent.

Does anyone know of service that lets you send in such a design and get the result posted back like exists for laser cutting or PCBs?

Amazing! Programmers are needed in each discipline. This is such a transdisciplinary project.

Looks really interesting. I presume this is accepted to SIG18 ???

how much does a knitting machine cost?