DefeXtiles ᱴᱮᱠᱥᱴᱟᱭᱤᱞ ᱵᱮᱱᱟ᱕ ᱠᱟᱛᱷᱟ (ᱴᱮᱠᱱᱤᱠ) by Jack Forman is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award ᱠᱟᱥᱟ ᱯᱩᱨᱚᱥᱠᱟᱨ in 3D ᱪᱷᱟᱯᱟ Competition Category.
ᱠᱟᱥᱟ3D ᱪᱷᱟᱯᱟ· 2021
DefeXtiles ᱴᱮᱠᱥᱴᱟᱭᱤᱞ ᱵᱮᱱᱟ᱕ ᱠᱟᱛᱷᱟ (ᱴᱮᱠᱱᱤᱠ)
by Jack Forman
Client: Tangible Media Group, MIT Media Lab
A' Design Award ᱠᱟᱥᱟ ᱯᱩᱨᱚᱥᱠᱟᱨ Winner in 3D ᱪᱷᱟᱯᱟ Category
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About DefeXtiles ᱴᱮᱠᱥᱴᱟᱭᱤᱞ ᱵᱮᱱᱟ᱕ ᱠᱟᱛᱷᱟ (ᱴᱮᱠᱱᱤᱠ)
ᱰᱤᱯᱷᱮᱠᱥᱴᱟᱭᱤᱞᱥ ᱢᱮᱱᱟᱜ-ᱟ ᱢᱤᱫ ᱠᱟᱛᱷᱟ ᱡᱟᱦᱟᱸ ᱥᱴᱮᱱᱰᱟᱨᱰ 3ᱰᱤ ᱯᱨᱤᱸᱴᱚᱨ ᱨᱮ ᱞᱟᱦᱟ ᱟᱨ ᱞᱚᱴᱚᱨ ᱴᱮᱠᱥᱴᱟᱭᱤᱞ ᱛᱮᱭᱟᱨ ᱦᱚᱸ ᱞᱟᱹᱜᱤᱫ ᱵᱮᱵᱷᱟᱨ ᱦᱚᱭᱠᱟᱱᱟ᱾ ᱱᱚᱶᱟ ᱨᱚᱲᱟ ᱦᱚᱲᱢᱚ ᱡᱟᱨᱩᱨ ᱠᱟᱨᱤ (under-extrusion) ᱨᱮᱱᱟᱜ ᱱᱮᱸᱜᱮᱞ ᱠᱟᱛᱷᱟ ᱟᱨ ᱛᱟᱦᱮᱸ ᱡᱟᱦᱟᱸ ᱛᱮ ᱚᱠᱛᱚ ᱚᱠᱛᱚ ᱡᱮᱴ ᱡᱮᱴ ᱛᱟᱞᱩᱣᱟ ᱠᱚ ᱵᱮᱲᱟ ᱦᱚᱭᱟ ᱟᱨ ᱩᱱᱠᱩ ᱠᱚᱢᱮ ᱯᱟᱛᱞᱟᱹ ᱡᱟᱛᱷᱟᱨ ᱠᱚ ᱛᱮ ᱡᱩᱲᱟᱹᱣ ᱠᱟᱱᱟᱭ᱾ ᱱᱚᱶᱟ ᱦᱚᱨᱟ ᱛᱮ ᱡᱟᱦᱟᱸ ᱦᱟᱲᱟᱢ ᱦᱟᱲᱟᱢ ᱡᱟᱭᱜᱟ ᱛᱮᱭᱟᱨ ᱦᱚᱭᱟ, ᱩᱱᱩᱭ ᱚᱠᱚ ᱥᱟᱸᱪᱟᱣ ᱠᱟᱛᱮ ᱛᱮᱭᱟᱨ ᱢᱮᱱᱟᱜ ᱠᱟᱯᱲᱟᱹ (ᱴᱮᱠᱥᱴᱟᱭᱤᱞ) ᱡᱟᱠᱟᱛ ᱡᱮᱞᱠᱟ ᱨᱩᱯ, ᱥᱟᱸᱥ ᱦᱩᱭ ᱟᱠᱛᱚᱢ, ᱞᱚᱴᱚᱨ ᱟᱨ ᱴᱮᱱ ᱚᱠᱛᱟ ᱮᱢᱚᱜᱼᱟ, ᱛᱤᱸᱜᱩᱸ ᱠᱚᱰᱟ ᱠᱚᱰᱟ ᱵᱚᱦᱩ (rigid) ᱵᱚᱦᱩ ᱯᱚᱞᱤᱞᱮᱠᱴᱤᱠ ᱮᱥᱤᱰ ᱡᱟᱨᱩᱨ ᱛᱮᱯᱮ ᱛᱮᱭᱟᱠ ᱠᱟᱱᱟ᱾ ᱱᱚᱶᱟ ᱴᱮᱠᱥᱴᱟᱭᱤᱞ ᱠᱚ ᱯᱨᱤᱸᱴ ᱵᱮᱰ ᱠᱷᱚᱱ ᱠᱷᱚᱸᱡᱟ (perpendicular) ᱴᱷᱮᱱ ᱯᱨᱤᱸᱴ ᱠᱟᱱᱟ, ᱚᱱᱟ ᱞᱟᱹᱜᱤᱫ ᱯᱞᱤᱴᱮᱰ ᱟᱨ ᱠᱟᱨᱣᱰ ᱨᱩᱯ ᱠᱚ ᱦᱚᱸ ᱛᱮᱭᱟᱨ ᱦᱩᱭ ᱫᱟᱲᱮᱭᱟᱜᱼᱟ᱾ ᱵᱮᱵᱷᱟᱨ ᱨᱮ ᱢᱮᱱᱟᱜᱼᱟ ᱠᱟᱯᱲᱟᱹ-ᱞᱤᱭᱟᱹ (ᱜᱟᱨᱢᱮᱸᱴ), ᱦᱟᱛ ᱛᱮ ᱛᱟᱦᱮᱸ ᱩᱠᱩ ᱡᱚᱜᱟᱣ (ᱴᱮᱸᱡᱤᱵᱚᱞ ᱤᱱᱴᱚᱨᱯᱷᱮᱥ) ᱟᱨ ᱥᱚᱴᱟᱞᱠᱚᱠ (ᱥᱟᱴᱞᱠᱚᱠ)᱾ ᱠᱚᱸᱰᱚᱠᱴᱤᱵ ᱯᱷᱤᱞᱟᱢᱮᱸᱴ ᱴᱮ ᱯᱟᱛᱞᱟᱹ ᱨᱮ ᱮᱥᱠᱤᱰ ᱠᱟᱨᱮᱸᱴ ᱡᱚᱜᱚ (circuit traces) ᱠᱚᱦᱚᱸ ᱠᱟᱴᱚ ᱮᱡ ᱫᱟᱲᱮᱭᱟᱜᱼᱟ᱾
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award ᱠᱟᱥᱟ ᱯᱩᱨᱚᱥᱠᱟᱨ
DefeXtiles ᱴᱮᱠᱥᱴᱟᱭᱤᱞ ᱵᱮᱱᱟ᱕ ᱠᱟᱛᱷᱟ (ᱴᱮᱠᱱᱤᱠ) ᱫᱚ A' Design Award ᱠᱟᱥᱟ ᱯᱩᱨᱚᱥᱠᱟᱨ ᱧᱟᱢ ᱟᱠᱟᱱᱟ, ᱱᱚᱶᱟ ᱫᱚ ᱱᱟᱣᱟ ᱵᱷᱟᱵᱱᱟ ᱛᱮ ᱵᱷᱟᱞᱟᱭ ᱰᱤᱡᱟᱭᱤᱱ ᱠᱚ ᱞᱟᱹᱜᱤᱫ ᱮᱢ ᱟᱠᱟᱱ ᱥᱚᱢᱟᱱ ᱠᱟᱱᱟ᱾ ᱱᱚᱶᱟ ᱠᱚ ᱫᱚ ᱰᱤᱡᱟᱭᱤᱱᱟᱨ ᱠᱚ ᱨᱮᱭᱟᱜ ᱵᱷᱟᱵᱱᱟ ᱟᱨ ᱵᱷᱟᱞᱟᱭ ᱠᱟᱢᱤ ᱡᱷᱟᱞᱠᱟᱣ ᱠᱚ᱾ DefeXtiles ᱴᱮᱠᱥᱴᱟᱭᱤᱞ ᱵᱮᱱᱟ᱕ ᱠᱟᱛᱷᱟ (ᱴᱮᱠᱱᱤᱠ) ᱫᱚ ᱠᱚᱞᱟ, ᱣᱤᱜᱭᱟᱱ, ᱰᱤᱡᱟᱭᱤᱱ ᱟᱨ ᱴᱮᱠᱱᱚᱞᱚᱡᱤ ᱨᱮᱭᱟᱜ ᱥᱤᱢᱟ ᱵᱟᱲᱦᱟᱣ ᱟᱨ ᱫᱩᱱᱤᱭᱟ ᱵᱷᱟᱞᱟᱭ ᱞᱟᱹᱜᱤᱫ ᱜᱚᱲᱚ ᱮᱢ ᱠᱟᱱᱟ᱾
Behind the Design
Press Kit
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 and Hiroshi Ishii
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