You Have to Grow Wefts to Fold Them
Abstract
Knitting turns a one dimensional yarn into a highly ramified three-dimensional structure. As a method of additive manufacturing, it holds promise for a new class of lightweight, ultrastrong materials. Here we present a purely geometric model to predict the three-dimensional folding of knitted fabrics made only of the two traditional stitches, knit and purl.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- August 2024
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.2408.08409
- arXiv:
- arXiv:2408.08409
- Bibcode:
- 2024arXiv240808409N
- Keywords:
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- Condensed Matter - Soft Condensed Matter;
- Condensed Matter - Materials Science
- E-Print:
- 7 pages, 3 figures, the whole megillah