DefeXtiles Textile Fabrication

DefeXtiles Textile Fabrication
by Jack Forman

• Awarded April 15, 2021
• CLIENT: Tangible Media Group, MIT Media Lab
• 4.801

DefeXtiles is a rapid and low-cost technique to produce realistic high-fidelity textiles on 3D printers. The work demonstrates that under-extrusion defects can be finely controlled to quickly print thin flexible textiles into complex 3D shapes. This approach enables a myriad of applications including printing full sized garments, deformable tangible interfaces, and ultra-tough shuttlecocks.