3D Knitting from a 3D Computer Model

Yuki Igarashi, Takeo Igarashi and Hiromasa Suzuki already published in 2008 a way to convert 3D models into knitting models in their presentation in Japanese “3次元モデルからのあみぐるみ生成 – 五十嵐 悠紀,五十嵐 健夫,鈴木 宏”. Video in Japanese: youtu.be/xJyZ3XQkrh4 A knitted animal is made of a closed surface consisting of several knitted patches knitted out of yarn and stuffed …

2D Patterns and 3D Forms – Sensitive Couture for Interactive Garment Editing and Modeling

This paper about “Sensitive Couture for Interactive Garment Editing and Modeling” is amazing and the source code is available (but not with an Open Source license as far as I can see). It is published at ACM Transaction on Graphics, Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2011 by Nobuyuki Umetani, Danny M. Kaufman, Takeo Igarashi, and Eitan Grinspun. …