Knitting Skeletons: A Computer-Aided Design Tool for Shaping and Patterning of Knitted Garments
This tool addresses the need for easier garment design for casual and advanced users in the knitting domain, representing an incremental improvement by integrating existing CAD and image editing concepts.
The paper tackles the problem of customizing machine-knitted garments by presenting an interactive CAD tool that combines parametric primitives and stitch pattern layers, enabling real-time feedback and customization transfer between users.
This work presents a novel interactive system for simple garment composition and surface patterning. Our approach makes it easier for casual users to customize machine-knitted garments, while enabling more advanced users to design their own composable templates. Our tool combines ideas from CAD software and image editing: it allows the composition of (1) parametric knitted primitives, and (2) stitch pattern layers with different resampling behaviours. By leveraging the regularity of our primitives, our tool enables interactive customization with automated layout and real-time patterning feedback. We show a variety of garments and patterns created with our tool, and highlight our ability to transfer shape and pattern customizations between users.