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An App That Turns Any Drawing Into a Dress
fangmcgee writes "A new app by interactive designer Mary Huang called Continuum, lets you turn any drawing into a customized three-dimensional garment. From the article: 'Huang dubs her software “D. dress”—the “D” stands for “Delaunay triangulation,” an algorithm she uses to deconstruct each dress into a series of triangular planes. Any adjustments in necklines, skirt lengths, or sleeve types are achieved by adding or subtracting triangles. “Lo-res triangular models are more abstract,” Huang admits, “but this abstraction prompts people to imagine what the resulting dress would look like rather than expect an exact rendition of the screen image. The triangulation also insures that almost any drawing will produce an interesting form.”'"
So, if I make an XKCD dress, it'll be like a full-body corset that crushes the vict... er... female with it's insanely thin design for stick people?
There's a spot in User Info for World of Warcraft account names? Really?
I was thinking you could probably do something similar to this on a real model with a Kinect.
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Life's parade of fashion just leaves me depressed
Under every garment I can see the world's address
Call the men of science and let them hear this song
Tell them Albert Einstein and Copernicus were wrong
The world's address
A place that's worn
A sad pun that reflects a sadder mess
I'll repeat it for those who may not have already guessed
The world's address
Judging by the article... Just because you CAN, doesn't mean you SHOULD.
Might as well turn my desktop into something useful. I'm glad I installed Unity instead of IceWM
a dress designed from a picture of a naked lady.
Yah. Thanks for that. Stupid NSFW goatse.cx troll.
Next challenge: an algorithm that turns any drawing into an ATTRACTIVE dress.
...but those dresses look awful. Probably why I'm not a fashion critic.
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Is that the best trolling you can come up with? Pathetic.
So she's applying a texture to a 3d shape.... or am I missing something here?
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"Look like a failed 3D rendering of yourself!"
Oh, that's right: Animal Crossing. She copied an element out of a 2004 Nintendo game, and that's apparently newsworthy.
Those look great...for me to poop on.
... I think some of the fashion designers that made the news recently by posting some ads where they photoshopped some model into stick-figures -- or, for that matter, who made the news by firing a ridiculously thin model for being too fat for their fashion -- would pay good money for something like that. On second thought, wait a minute, if anyone could just run an XKCD strip through an app for the same effect, that would put them out of business ;)
A polar bear is a cartesian bear after a coordinate transform.
Have you RTFA, thought? Their examples of a generated dress left me thinking, "hey, cool, it's the stealth dress" ;) Actually even that's unfair, as stealth ships and planes may have all sorts of angles and polyhedra, but they don't get them jutting at seemingly random angles and positions.
I mean, seriously, the first dress looks like, umm, you're wearing some kind of mis-shapen backpack. As a dress, not on your back. The second is only marginally better.
And I mean, really, it's not just that they're made of triangles. So are the high-def models in the latest games and they don't look that bad. This thing looks like it made the dress out of 1 ft big triangles, and extrapolated the third dimension to basically some wildly random value. So you get pretty much a dress made of giant D4 dice (tetrahedrons), with random sized heights and jutting out at weird angles.
I'm not sure a model accurate to myself could be worse than that even if it caught me before having my morning coffee and shower.
Plus, if you're making a fashion dress, you probably wouldn't use me as a model, but one of the models such a fashion designer studio employs. And if you could actually take a 3d view and fit the dress to her body instead of producing what looks like random heights, that has to be a huge step forward.
A polar bear is a cartesian bear after a coordinate transform.
because
In all fairness, though, I can't imagine a lego version looking any worse than this :p
A polar bear is a cartesian bear after a coordinate transform.
Yeah, the real mistake was an article from a supposed fashion website calling it "bespoke fashion" - since they are talking about dresses and not men's clothing, it's "haute couture."
Very interesting technology. But the dresses are all black and triangulated. Make yourself look like a character in a late-90s videogame!
M.C. Escher
Oh, say does that Star-Spangled Banner entwine / The myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's vine?
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Translation: quit freaking our Mr. Insurance Agent!
She's NAKED underneath that TRIANGULATION! Won't SOMEONE think of all the CHILDREN who read slashdot?
But can the app turn goatse into a dress?
TFA shows only a model dressed in, well, a dress that looks little different from a bed sheet draped on by an actress in a PG-rated love scene. I mean, this is the sort of fashion that you can do with a little skill but lots of chutzpah. I'm sure a teen-aged girl with plenty of time but short on her mommy money can do a much, much better job.
I'd be more impressed if the app can do pants and a proper shirt that, even if it won't make the pages of GQ, I at least won't be ashamed to wear to work.
since when is something that runs in Flash inside a web browser an "app"?
Also, it's damned near impossible to make the front and back of the dress line up. And you can't put polys on the arms, they end up flat. also, everything ends up looking like a black garbage bag.
I only know a smattering of 3D and triangulation (srsly, not that hard, look up Delaunay triangulation) but I reckon I could make something less straight-up ugly than that. Just add more polys, Flash can handle hundreds of flat untextured polygons easily.
OK, as far as titles for conference papers go, that's a good one. Fresh.
Why idle? If it was a 3d printing application that lets people prototype aircraft quicker I'm guessing there'd be a little more respect.
I'm forwarding the link to a friend who's self-employed in craft/fashion. She'll love it. Thanks /.!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3xrkMhKwII
"Marvelous Designer" is a cloth simulation program. You drape the fabric over an object (human avatar, or anything else you want). Then it simulates how the fabric will drape in more or less real time (a fast PC helps in that). It takes into account stretch, stiffness, etc. Then you can export the model to other 3D programs, or to sewing software to produce actual clothing from it.
I used it to make this dress and bedspread for a virtual world:
http://lh4.googleusercontent.com/_N3W3ksl-Xiw/TQAn5sYpwsI/AAAAAAAACK0/UHGXI2NKyNI/s800/HalterMiniPrint.JPG
http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/_N3W3ksl-Xiw/TPhfR7ZPHJI/AAAAAAAACKc/vMBut9JE2BQ/s1152/QueenBedWithCover.JPG
except this one is for fashion while Homestyler is for interior design and remodeling.
That's pretty cool.