A Compiler for 3D Machine Knitting

I would really love it if this were paired with a renderer. As a knitter, I often want to see what designs knit out to without actually, you know, knitting.

Disney Research comes up with some pretty cool stuff. I loved their 3d printed speaker idea from a couple years ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zralu3wYUTU

Fantastic initiative. My wife works in knitwear and I've been cooking up a disruptor for what is frankly a lagging industry. Current best-in-class software can be seen at e.g. http://www.stoll.com/stoll_software_solutions_en_4/pattern_s...

Compiler... 3D... and Knitting all in the same sentence.

What a time to be alive.

Reminds me of the plush toy cloth pattern generator, http://www.geocities.jp/igarashi_lab/plushie/index-e.html

This would create a pattern, they have an example of sewn cloth, and inflatable balloons they built.

which was kind of a decendent of teddy 3d http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~jacobson/seminar/igarashi-et-al-1...

This is a lot more about the UI (which i still think is amazing 17 years later), not so much about the compiler.

Just don't turn on -funroll-loops.

Is there a 3D Knitting service, similar in spirit to Shapeways, that allows you to send a design file of some sort, and they'll send you a knitted item?

I wonder how does it compare with off-the-shelf commercial knitting design software.

Reminds me of the openKnit project. http://openknit.org/

Combined with proper user body data collection techniques, this could create real customized apparel.

I want to see this paired with a Kinect. Walk into a store, select a sweater off the rack that you like. Scan the tag at a kiosk. Get scanned. Customize the fit and color. Come back in a couple of hours with a new garment.

Most of Disney research is as sophisticated as cute.