Exploration of Knitted Spacer Fabrics using Grasshopper

Abstract

We describe a novel approach for exploring, visualizing and modelling of complex textile structures. We show this approach in action for the exploration of weft-knitted spacer fabrics. The modelling tools are readily available and represent a fast-growing approach in communities of generative design. The approach helps solving the problem that spacer fabrics are complex structures which are hard to imagine and to visualize. The explorations turn out insight-full and flexible and are complementary to what can be done with existing tools.