Z. Liu
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The computational design of knitting attracted increased attention in recent years. In this dissertation, we consider the customized design and fabrication of 3D and 4D garments as knitwears. The 3D knitwear fits the target human body, and the 4D knitwear also considers comfort during body movement. The main research question (RQ) is: How to design customized 3D and 4D knitwear and generate instructions for a digital knitting machine?
In this dissertation, we researched computational knitwear design methods. We considered not only 3D fitting but also comfort during motion (4D). Our research can be applied in garment production (especially mass customization) or other knitting applications. Garment designers and other industrial designers can use the proposed methods to generate knitting instructions for free-form 3D surfaces. Our 4D design method helps designers place elastic or other varied knitting structures while keeping the intended 3D shape. This dissertation presents new perspectives on computational approaches to existing manufacturing techniques. It also provides enough details to further develop such design systems to be applied in practice. ...
The computational design of knitting attracted increased attention in recent years. In this dissertation, we consider the customized design and fabrication of 3D and 4D garments as knitwears. The 3D knitwear fits the target human body, and the 4D knitwear also considers comfort during body movement. The main research question (RQ) is: How to design customized 3D and 4D knitwear and generate instructions for a digital knitting machine?
In this dissertation, we researched computational knitwear design methods. We considered not only 3D fitting but also comfort during motion (4D). Our research can be applied in garment production (especially mass customization) or other knitting applications. Garment designers and other industrial designers can use the proposed methods to generate knitting instructions for free-form 3D surfaces. Our 4D design method helps designers place elastic or other varied knitting structures while keeping the intended 3D shape. This dissertation presents new perspectives on computational approaches to existing manufacturing techniques. It also provides enough details to further develop such design systems to be applied in practice.
In this paper, we present a new computational pipeline for designing and fabricating 4D garments as knitwear that considers comfort during body movement. This is achieved by careful control of elasticity distribution to reduce uncomfortable pressure and unwanted sliding caused by body motion. We exploit the ability to knit patterns in different elastic levels by single-jersey jacquard (SJJ) with two yarns. We design the distribution of elasticity for a garment by physics-based computation, the optimized elasticity on the garment is then converted into instructions for a digital knitting machine by two algorithms proposed in this paper. Specifically, a graph-based algorithm is proposed to generate knittable stitch meshes that can accurately capture the 3D shape of a garment, and a tiling algorithm is employed to assign SJJ patterns on the stitch mesh to realize the designed distribution of elasticity. The effectiveness of our approach is verified on simulation results and on specimens physically fabricated by knitting machines.
Spatio-temporal prediction of missing temperature with stochastic Poisson equations
The LC2019 team winning entry for the EVA 2019 data competition
This paper presents our winning entry for the EVA 2019 data competition, the aim of which is to predict Red Sea surface temperature extremes over space and time. To achieve this, we used a stochastic partial differential equation (Poisson equation) based method, improved through a regularization to penalize large magnitudes of solutions. This approach is shown to be successful according to the competition’s evaluation criterion, i.e. a threshold-weighted continuous ranked probability score. Our stochastic Poisson equation and its boundary conditions resolve the data’s non-stationarity naturally and effectively. Meanwhile, our numerical method is computationally efficient at dealing with the data’s high dimensionality, without any parameter estimation. It demonstrates the usefulness of stochastic differential equations on spatio-temporal predictions, including the extremes of the process.