Algorithmic Textiles Design: Weaving Project

In this project, you will use computational assistance to help you create a woven artifact. There are many ways to approach this. Some examples: you could build a computational design tool like an image-to-weaving translator (using, e.g., the overshot or double cloth techniques), develop scripts that make laser-cutting plans for custom card looms, or build and use a fully automated loom.

The Engineering Part

Write the code needed to assist you in making a woven artifact.

If you want to use the jacquard loom in the lab, you can either use the Jacq3G library to talk to it directly, or product a file filled with 1's and 0's to its send-picks.py script. (Check with course staff for the current warp setup.)

The Artful Part

Consider what concept or idea you wish to convey with your computational assistance (or final artifact).

What To Turn In

• Before Class: photograph your woven artifact; write a paragraph about what you set out to do with the artifact and where you think you succeeded or failed; make a copy of any patterns you ran on your loom(s); and make a copy of any source code for your artifact-generating program. Upload all of these things to a sub-folder named with your andrewid of this google drive folder. NOTE: use your @andrew account to access. NOTE2: make a sub-folder, don't upload a zip file.
• During Class: Bring your artifact. Present and discuss it with your classmates during our critique.