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An App That Turns Any Drawing Into a Dress

Posted by samzenpus on from the etch-a-dress dept.

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.”'"

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  1. I am not a fashion critic... by HatofPig · · Score: 2

    ...but those dresses look awful. Probably why I'm not a fashion critic.

    --
    Silicon & Charybdis McLuhan Kildall Papert Kay
  2. Re:For Pete's sake. It's "ensures"! by tonywong · · Score: 2

    If you bothered to look up the definition, you will see that insure can be used in lieu of ensure.

    Definition of INSURE

    transitive verb
    1
    : to provide or obtain insurance on or for
    2
    : to make certain especially by taking necessary measures and precautions
    intransitive verb

    in·sure   
    [in-shoor, -shur] Show IPA
    verb, -sured, -sur·ing.
    –verb (used with object)
    1.
    to guarantee against loss or harm.
    2.
    to secure indemnity to or on, in case of loss, damage, or death.
    3.
    to issue or procure an insurance policy on or for.
    4.
    ensure ( defs. 1–3 ) .

  3. Re:XKCD? by ackthpt · · Score: 2

    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?

    Hm. Been to the mall lately? There's some teenage girls in the malls here who could give XKCD a run for it's money in the stick-figure department.

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    A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
  4. If you want to see a real clothing program at work by DanielRavenNest · · Score: 2

    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

  5. Re:XKCD? by 0100010001010011 · · Score: 2

    Because the feds have a problem if I have *those* pictures on my computer. Where as it's free and legal if I just view it at the mall.

    Duh.