A compiler for 3D machine knitting

@article{McCann2016ACF,
  title={A compiler for 3D machine knitting},
  author={James McCann and Lea Albaugh and Vidya Priyadarshini Narayanan and April Grow and Wojciech Matusik and Jennifer Mankoff and Jessica K. Hodgins},
  journal={ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)},
  year={2016},
  volume={35},
  pages={1 - 11}
}
Industrial knitting machines can produce finely detailed, seamless, 3D surfaces quickly and without human intervention. [] Key Method At the core of our compiler is a heuristic transfer planning algorithm for knit cycles, which we prove is both sound and complete. This algorithm enables the translation of high-level shaping and scheduling operations into needle-level operations. We show a wide range of examples produced with our compiler and demonstrate a basic visual design interface that uses our compiler…
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