New Textiles 2011

Due: Tuesday, April 26, 2011
See student designs here

For this assignment you will create a computationally generated textile pattern. You’ll write a program that generates a pattern and use the embroidery machine, laser cutter, knitting machine (or another CNC device, ie: a CNC loom or a 3D printer) to automatically produce the pattern.

Create a post that documents your project and add it to the Computational Design category. Your page should include pictures of your finished textile, the code you wrote to generate the pattern, a few photographs of the construction process, and a paragraph about your experience.

Something to think about…You have three weeks to finish this assignment. This would give you time to order fabric from a service like Spoonflower (custom fabric prints) or Shapeways (3D printed fabrics). A 3D printed fabric:

Tutorials, including sample code are available in the Machine Tutorial category of the HLT wiki.

Bring your projects to class on April 19 for demonstrations.