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DefeXtiles Primary Function: Teknik sa Paghimo og Panapton by Jack Forman

DefeXtiles Primary Function: Teknik sa Paghimo og Panapton by Jack Forman is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award nga Pilak in Disenyo sa Tekstil, Tela, Tekstura, Sumbanan ug Panapton Competition Category.


PilakTekstil· 2021

DefeXtiles Primary Function: Teknik sa Paghimo og Panapton

by Jack Forman

Client: Tangible Media Group, Mit Media Lab

A' Design Award nga Pilak Winner in Tekstil Category

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The Design

About DefeXtiles Primary Function: Teknik sa Paghimo og Panapton

DefeXtiles usa ka teknik sa paghimo og panapton nga naggama og manipis ug hapsay nga mga panapton pinaagi sa standard nga 3D nga mga printer. Ang pamaagi nagkontrol sa under-extrusion aron maporma ang gagmayng mga tibhang nga adunay pinong mga hilo taliwala nila. Ang resulta nga peryodikong mga luna nagahatag og hitsura sa hinabol nga panapton, pagkabuhi sa hangin, pagkahapsay, ug pagka-inat, bisan pa sa mga materyales nga gahi sama sa polylactic acid. Ang panapton giimprinta nga patindog sa print bed, mao nga makahimo og pleated, kurbado, ug komplikadong mga porma. Ang mga aplikasyon naglakip sa mga sapot, tangible nga mga interface, ug mga dulaan.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award nga Pilak

DefeXtiles Primary Function: Teknik sa Paghimo og Panapton usa ka mananaog sa A' Design Award nga Pilak, usa ka talagsaon kaayo nga prestihiyoso nga pag-ila nga gihatag sa labing taas nga lebel, matahom, ug makadani nga mga disenyo. Ang mga mananaog sa Pilak labihan ka hayag ug mamugnaon nga mga buhat nga nagpakita sa bantogan nga kahanas, talento, ug kamatngon sa ilang mga tigdesinyo. Gilauman nga ang DefeXtiles Primary Function: Teknik sa Paghimo og Panapton mahimong talagsaon nga buhat nga ipasigarbo, dako ang pagkapropesyonal ug lawom ang kabag-ohan. Kini nga disenyo nga nakadaog og A' Design Award nga Pilak usa ka labihan ka mamatikdan, gihangaan nga imbento nga mapuslanon ug nagpalapad sa mga utlanan sa arte, siyensya, disenyo, ug teknolohiya. DefeXtiles Primary Function: Teknik sa Paghimo og Panapton usa ka paglalang nga giinggit sa daghan, nga nagpukaw og mga tinguha, nagdala og positibo nga mga pagbati, ug nagsiga sa katingala ug paghangyo.

Behind the Design

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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties
DefeXtiles is a rapid and low-cost technique to produce realistic high-fidelity textiles on 3D printers. In this work, we demonstrate that under-extrusion defects can be finely controlled to quickly print thin flexible textiles into complex 3D shapes. Our approach enables a myriad of applications including printing full sized garments, deformable tangible interfaces, and ultra-tough shuttlecocks.
Tags
textile, 3d print, lace, advanced manufacturing, fabric
Production Technology
In this paper, we demonstrate that under-extrusion can be leveraged to quickly print thin, flexible, textiles. Specifically, as the extrusion multiplier decreases, there exists an ideal regime where globs form with fine strands connecting them. The periodic gaps that arise from printing this way not only yields textile-like aesthetics and breathability, but also textile-like properties such as flexibility and stretchability even with classically rigid materials such as polylactic acid (PLA).
Design Challenge
To democratize access and ability to make 3D forms with textiles by developing a new technique that allows textiles to be 3D printed into complex 3-dimensional forms using unmodified commodity 3D printer and no new software.
Research
We present a new strategy, called DefeXtiles, to 3D print quasi-woven fabrics that are thin, flexible, and fast to fabricate. Since our approach prints the textiles perpendicular to the print bed, complex geometries can be produced including pleated, curved, and metamaterial structures. With our approach, a standard 3D printer can print decameters of fabric in a single print. The use of multi-material printers allows users to embed circuit traces into the textile via conductive filament.
Inspiration
For thousands of years, the manufacturing of textiles into shaped forms has remained largely the same; fiber becomes a fabric which is then constructed into a 3D object. The high-tech approach, machine knitting, uses expensive machines with a significant learning curve for use. The low-tech approach, classic sewing, requires painstaking processes. As such, there is a need for a fast and accessible approach to manufacture textiles into 3D forms.
Project Duration
Started in October 2019 in Cambridge Massachusettes, and finished in June 2020. The work will be presented and demoed at the ACM User Interface Software and Technology Symposium 2020.
Operation Flow
This work has introduced a new approach to quickly print thin, flexible textiles composed of common 3D printing ma-terials with an unmodified 3D printer. Our approach com-bines the flexible, thin, and breathable properties of textiles with the affordances of 3D printing: rapid iteration, hands-free fabrication, and computer aided design. Through char-acterization, we demonstrate how our approach enables tun-ing of the mechanical and aesthetic properties through mate-rial and parameter selection. Through a series of applica-tions, we demonstrated the potential applicability of our approach for smart textiles, tangible online shopping, toys, fabric design, and everyday life.
Team Members
Jack Forman
Mustafa Doga Dogan
Hamilton Foryseth
Hiroshi Ishii

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