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Fabricating Accessible Designs with Knitting Machines

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Knitting machines have the power to manufacture and customize fabrics quickly, but today’s proprietary knitting design systems are challenging to use and inaccessible to common users. Research advances have improved the desgin process, but tend to focus on designing from scratch rather than modification. We present a knitting design pipeline that given a KnitGraph representation of a desirable knit object as input, enables users to 1) modify a KnitGraph to add holes and pockets, which can enhance a design or make it more accessible to people with disabilities and 2) generate corresponding low-level machine commands readable by the knitting machine based on the modified KnitGraph.

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    SCF '22: Proceedings of the 7th Annual ACM Symposium on Computational Fabrication
    October 2022
    201 pages
    ISBN:9781450398725
    DOI:10.1145/3559400
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    1. Accessibility
    2. Digital Fabrication
    3. Knitting

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    SCF '22: Symposium on Computational Fabrication
    October 26 - 28, 2022
    WA, Seattle, USA

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    • (2024)Bumping Elbows: from 3D Body Scans to 3D KnittingAdjunct Proceedings of the 9th ACM Symposium on Computational Fabrication10.1145/3665662.3673267(1-3)Online publication date: 7-Jul-2024
    • (2024)KODA: Knit-program Optimization by Dependency AnalysisProceedings of the 37th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology10.1145/3654777.3676405(1-15)Online publication date: 13-Oct-2024
    • (2024)Palette-PrintAR: augmented reality design and simulation for multicolor resin 3D printingProceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3613904.3642909(1-12)Online publication date: 11-May-2024
    • (2023)KnitScript: A Domain-Specific Scripting Language for Advanced Machine KnittingProceedings of the 36th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology10.1145/3586183.3606789(1-21)Online publication date: 29-Oct-2023

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