A 3-D Printed Dress That’s Almost Practical Enough to WearA LITTLE MORE than a year ago, a des
A 3-D Printed Dress That’s Almost Practical Enough to WearA LITTLE MORE than a year ago, a design and technology studio in Boston called Nervous System made an entirely new kind of dress. The garment, a flowing black number with lacy cutouts, was assembled from hundreds of plastic triangles that moved like fabric. Making plastic shift and sway like cotton was crazy enough, but the real mind bender was that the dress emerged from a 3-D printer as a ready-to-wear piece you simply slipped on and buttoned up.The studio, run by Jessica Rosenkrantz and Jesse Louis-Rosenberg, has since made seven more dresses that subtly vary in shape and density of the pattern. “But they all kind of looked a little bit the same,” Rosenkrantz says. The studio’s ninth dress, created for a show at Boston’s Museum of Fine Art, is a noticeable departure, and a significant step toward making 3-D printed clothing practical.Unlike earlier iterations with their lacy, tessellated pattern, the Kinematics Petals dress has rounded nylon pieces laid atop the plastic triangles. Rozenkrantz says the idea was inspired by scales, feathers, and petals. The designers wanted to see if they could affix an overlay to the hinge in each triangle, creating a more textured dress. “It’s also not see-through anymore,” Rozenkrantz says. “Which in my opinion is a strong benefit.”Creating the petal dress is more or less the same as creating the others. It starts with a body scan of the woman who will wear it. From there, people can choose the hemline and silhouette, and fill it in with the base triangle pattern. The smaller and denser the pattern, the more fitted the dress. That’s where the process ends if you’re happy with a lacy pattern. If you want more, you can use the interface to paint on the petal overlay, making the petals sharp or rounded, big or small. All of that information is then sent to the 3-D printer. (read more)Source: WIRED -- source link
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