6. Computational Couture#

Brief#

Disciplines as programming and electronics become highly interconnected, blurring old boundaries and merging different fields of knowledge. Fashion has been already affected by this radical change. Therefore, clothes, shoes and other accessories can now incorporate elements of hardware and software, generating a peculiar mix between fashion and computation that is incredibly fertile and inspiring. Data becomes Beauty, Interaction becomes Emotion. As a result, a new aesthetic is emerging.

In this class participants will explore computational design methods towards a new reinterpretation of cloths, garments and accessories for fashion design, inspired by a new digital design methodology.

Assignment#

In this week we have to use Grasshopper to create 3 Dimensional patterns to 3D print, it’s not a simple program in the way I think. I start with Aldo and Francesco Perego lessons , it helps me a lot to do my grid, it’s not the first time I used grasshopper, I used grasshopper in Architecture and designing towers, but its been a long time since I used this program. Start with many tutorials from last year lectures in fabricademy and from YouTube.

Inspiration#

I have got inspired from the cultural embroidered dress in Jordan. Each form has a connotation of a particular concept, such as love and friendship, and a certain type of tree, such as olive trees and so on. First test I trird linen fabric to 3d print on it. On strech fabric I decide to make the design functional and making a weavy form, so I draw on grasshopper triangle gride.

inspired photos#

New on Grasshopper#

start with grasshopper to design a triangle grid following up Perego tutorial , and her are some links I used it to do my assignment grasshopper tatorials the concept is to creat a grid of triangle , so I used a 2D triangular grid plugin from grasshopper. after finishing the code , I bake the code to have it rhino and I start editing what I draw because I was stuck in grasshopper, in rhino I was free to edit and re draw many things was difficult to draw it in grasshopper, so my I idea is to start draw in grasshopper and complete in rhino. I was free to make many designs in rhino, after finishing I save it in STL form to print it,

On grasshopper I tried different codes to give me multiple forms, it was good I think, in grasshopper you can change a numder or add a component or a block it gives you a new shape, its a mazing.#

Printing On linen Fabric#

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Printing On strech Fabric#

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After finishing draw on grasshopper , I export the 3D pattern to cura in stl form. the first 3d printed did not represent what I want because the the thickness of the pattern was more thicker than I expect, and the result did not give me a 3D shape. so I did something different, I level the plate another time and make it more close to the nozel and make the layer high minimum ( 0.1), another thing I did when the print start printing I whait to finish the base and stoped the machine to have one only layer.

Putting the textile on the plate,and made a new leveling for the bed. To avoid catching the textile with the nozel I decrease the speed after many trable shooting.

Video#

From Vimeo#

1fcec2ba-84f3-4ad0-aca3-86d46f269b8b from Al-zahra'a alomari on Vimeo.

Her you can download the files to try on your fabric