Wearables are sometimes thought of as still a bit abstract, but here is something I would wear now...if it wasn't $3,000 USD. Although made of plastic, it seems to have a great flow and more fabric-like movement.
Do you think we will move towards 3D printed clothing (clothes could be customized and cut exactly to fit), or will we continue with traditional fabric production and tailoring?
This 3D printed plastic dress flows like fabric - CNN.com
"The design studio Nervous System has created a novel process that allows a 3-D printed dress to move and sway like real fabric. The bespoke software behind it, called Kinematics, combines origami techniques with novel approaches to 3-D printing, pushing the technology's limits.
Instead of pinning fabric to a dress form, a Kinematics garment starts as a 3-D model in a CAD program. Kinematics breaks the model down into tessellated, triangular segments of varying sizes. Designers can control the size, placement, and quantity of the triangles in a Javascript-based design tool and preview how the changes will impact the polygonal pinafore. Once the designer is satisfied, algorithms add hinges to the triangles uniting the garment into a single piece and compress the design into the smallest possible shape to optimise the printing process, often reducing the volume by 85 percent."
Read the rest of this WIRED article on This 3D printed plastic dress flows like fabric - CNN.com
