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?
After mine died I discovered she had studied mathematics under Peano for a couple of years before getting married. Unfortunately the only source I have for this interaction with Peano is an inscription on a Dover book that a friend of hers had gifted her.
I'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'd be very interesting to see clothing made in this fashion.
I don't think this would be ideal for clothes, although I'm sure it would be pretty good. Clothes are designed to move. They have pleats and extra space. A perfectly form fitting sweater would have cause stress/stretching as you moved your arms.
Similar methods are already in use in clothing design. Programs and patterns have the "extra space" built in; the jargon for it in knitwear is "ease" and it varies not only according to desired fit but also type of yarn/fiber. A garment with negative ease, for instance, needs to expand to fit onto your body, while a garment with positive ease is larger than the body measurements, and of course you could vary the ease within the garment.
There is some interesting engineering that needs to happen near large joints -- as you say, a "perfectly form-fitting sweater" might have some difficulties at the armpits for instance as we have such a range of motion there. But these are well-studied problems!
I think knit cloth would do really well with small variations. If the target is form fitting, you want it to just touch everywhere. Knit is pretty tolerant of that.
Indeed, this kind of reminded me a little of the Westworld robot printers. But having a program individually calculate all the orientations and determine the best strength is a just as much of an art.
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)
I recall someone publishing something similar a few years ago - I wonder how this compares?
CF isn't so different from a lot of natural fibers, I would think if you loaded up the knitting machine with bamboo yarn, you could glop resin onto the finished product to achieve something similar to carbon.
The mold is the tricky bit. You need to make your knitting in sections that will fit over the mold. It might be more effective than using strips, or it might just be more expensive.
There's no such thing as a copyright notice. There's no need for them, copyright exists automatically on any creative work. What you may have been looking for is a copyright license. These give permission to share the work, possibly subject to certain conditions.
The absence of a license simply means you ARE NOT licensed to share the work in any way shape or form.
Your intentions seem to be good but you may want to reconsider.
Indeed. Western legal principle: everything is legal, until you get convicted.
(Technically it's even more specific than that. You don't get to complain or get enforcement just because something is illegal. 3 conditions need to be satisfied. First, it needs to violate the law, as it the law applies to both the complainant and the defendant. Second there needs to be damage to the complainant. Thirdly there needs to be a causal connection between the damage and the law violation. And of course, there's still the implicit condition: there must be a complaint in the first place)
I wish people would keep this in mind when talking about law.
I can't get Google Drive to play mp4 files in Chrome (not here or on any other occasion). Is this happening to anyone else? Maybe I'm using a browser extension that messes with Google Drive. What I see is a waiting ticker cycling forever. The only way for me to play an mp4 file on GD is to download it locally, then manually drag and drop it in the browser or on another video player.
This is true, but you'll tend to get used machines (even at that price). I own a Passap 6000 as well as a single-bed machine; they're fun toys to have, definitely on the unusual side of the nerdy scale.
https://www.knittedknockers.org/