You Have to Grow Wefts to Fold Them

Abstract

Knitting turns a one dimensional yarn into a highly ramified three-dimensional structure. As a method of additive manufacturing, it holds promise for a new class of lightweight, ultrastrong materials. Here we present a purely geometric model to predict the three-dimensional folding of knitted fabrics made only of the two traditional stitches, knit and purl.

7 pages, 3 figures, the whole megillah

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