3D Did You See That Long Skirt?

When we think of 3D printing, we may think of solid objects. They are dead and unable to move. Do you think they can be as light as clothes? Nervous System design room has created a novel process that allows 3D printing clothing to move and swing like real fabrics.

The customized software behind it is Kinematics, which combines origami skills with 3D printing in a novel way, and then promotes the limit of the technology.

0, unlike the way to sew clothes into cloth, Kinematics will first form a 3D model in the CAD program, and then split the model into chessboard triangular segments in various sizes.

Designers can not only control the size, layout and quantity of these triangles, but also preview how the changes will affect the clothes.

Once the designer is satisfied, the algorithm will merge the triangle into a whole, and then compress the design into the smallest possible shape to optimize the printing process, and its volume will usually shrink by 85%.

After printing, a 3D print dress is freshly baked. Technicians like the archaeologists do the same treatment of the clothes, and the plastic parts will be cleaned and dyed, eventually creating the picture of the dress made of small chain plastic bricks.

Designer Jessica Rosenkrantz ensures that this long skirt is not only a simple trick, its buttons are also fitted with triangular sections, making it easier to dress.

Other 3D costumes feel like a suit of armor, but this long skirt can fly with the step and rotation of the model.

Comfort is a key consideration.

In order to capture the design features, Rosenkrantz tried to wear 3D jewelry one after another for weeks, and even caused skin abrasions.

She was gradually building her own outfit, starting with bracelets, followed by a belt, then a corset, and finally a long skirt.

Although Rosenkrantz brought the old tailor's method into the project, she was also very happy to make use of modern technology.

3D scanning the body of the model ensures that the clothes can be perfectly fitted.

Her clothes and Github repository were also recently collected by the Museum of modern art.

Initially, Kinematics was developed as part of a Google project and was developed by Nervous System. Its purpose is to help the promotion of a Android mobile phone to add a little new meaning. But Nervous System soon discovered how to print out bracelet and other items by reducing the size design, and the items that were produced could be folded like origami.

After the event, Nervous System thought the concept could be used to make clothes.

In the end, they spent a year trying to make them.

From the wrist to the skirt, every enlargement of the design poses a special challenge.

The folded leaf connected to the triangular section must be small enough for cloth to float, but it must be strong enough to avoid light.

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The parts have wood like texture, and some parts will produce more solid parts, which brings difficulty to print clothes.

The solution is to improve the software.

Rosenkrantz said: "we can make things related to design without printing anything, and we will know what the final product will be.

The first 77 folded belts were printed perfectly, but to add up to 700 or more, they needed to overcome more difficulties.

At first, the simulator turned the clothes into a ball.

"It's like rubbing your clothes into a ball and throwing it into the basket. It looks cool, but it's not the most effective way," Rosenkrantz said.

So Rosenkrantz developed a simulator based on collision, which can fold clothes into drawers.

The project was promoted in an unexpected way.

Fashion and manufacturing.

Rosenkrantz said: "it's almost like science fiction to fold them into 3D printing structures in such a crazy compression way.

To be honest, when you are engaged in complex work for a long time in a completely digital world, the biggest surprise is that from compression to fit, then to stereoscopic cutting and activities, everything is actually in accordance with expectations.

But printing technology needs special development.

New tools need to be developed to load their software.

If you can use nano precision technology to design, you can improve the accuracy and accuracy of printing.