Welcome to the homepage for the First-Year Odyssey Seminar on “Digital Design and Fabrication of Clothing.” The purpose of this seminar is to introduce you to some aspects of the technical theory of patterning and clothing manufacture, with an emphasis on the physics and mathematics of thread and cloth.
We’ll also discuss some of the economics of the fashion industry, including case studies of several companies.
I’ll try to post the class activities and models here so that you can refer to them outside of class. For starters, here is a link to the course syllabus.
- Introduction: Three ways to combine tech and fashion (8/14)
Activity: Class introductions and discussion. - Meshes and flat surfaces: What is flatness? (8/21)
Activity: Polydron “cloth”
Activity: Making a flat sphere. - Meshes and general surfaces: What is curvature? (8/28)
Activity: Assemble a bodice from a paper pattern
Activity: Join curves together to cover a model. - Rigidity and dynamics, origami: What is flexibility? (9/4)
Activity: Fold an arch.
Activity: Fold a hyperbolic paraboloid.
Activity: Design a hinged bracelet. - Introduction to 3d printing. What is possible? (9/11)
Activity: 3d printing training at MLC 373
Assignment: Print your hinged bracelet - Introduction to scanning. (9/4)
Activity: Scan a human with Einstar.
Activity: Scan a human with your phone. - From scan to low-poly triangle mesh (9/25)
Activity: Low polygon sphere
Activity: Low polygon hat (I) - Low polygon hats (10/2 – 10/9)
Activity: Low polygon hat assembly - Baseball hat theory and seam patterns (10/16)
Activity: Measuring heads and scaling patterns
Activity: Cutting fabric and paper. - Cloth hat sewing and assembly (10/23 – 10/30 – 11/6)
Activity: Cloth hat assembly. - Hat brims (11/13)
Activity: Construction of hat brims. - Show and tell for final projects (11/20)