This is a nice site with a lot of cellular knitting experience:
http://www.unikatissima.de/e/?page_id=2148
not only cellular patterns but also mazes!
With a pattern generator and all....
cellularautomataknitting
samedi 12 mai 2012
lundi 2 avril 2012
Lesson 7, more practice
As a result of the conversation with the MICA students, especially Rachel Christensen about her “political dress”, I made this experiment
a protest knit….
The bitmap image, at the left, is knitted using a Brother knitting machine.
The text in the knitting is mixed with a cellular pattern.
Later on i added hacked gadgets, in the shape of hands making (some rude) gestures….just looking at electronic or interactive elements…
lundi 26 mars 2012
Lesson 6: first knitted results
First results: (the computer and knitting software is finally working, in a nice collaboration with Gera!)
image coming from the cellular automaton example made in Processing (altered pde, see former posts)
102 x 100 pixels (knitting pixels that is :-)
two versions: positive and negative (knitted two times, can you spot the line: a mistake!)
The triangle signature is very visible, in using the Special Applet (see last post), other signatures will explored and knitted...
image coming from the cellular automaton example made in Processing (altered pde, see former posts)
102 x 100 pixels (knitting pixels that is :-)
two versions: positive and negative (knitted two times, can you spot the line: a mistake!)
The triangle signature is very visible, in using the Special Applet (see last post), other signatures will explored and knitted...
mardi 13 mars 2012
Lesson 5: an applet to play with
To get more varied results we will use this very exciting applet:
http://www.mirekw.com/ca/mjcell/mjcell.html
This is the program which is used making the catalog shown in an earlier post.
Lesson 4: Using a Program 2
Extended program to test patterns
We have modified the Wolfram example:
We now can make the rectangles bigger (in the code),
we have an indication of the combining rules, in yellow on a gray background left top, so that we can save an interesting setting.
We can enhance the starting points (seeds).
download:
http://www.contrechoc.com/crosslab/cellular_knitting_2.zipTry playing with this example! (We will look at it in class.)
A few examples of the results:
lundi 12 mars 2012
Lesson 1: A catalogue of machine generated patterns
Intro
In this class we will use knitting machines to make the patterns we design by computer.
The patterns are designed using the principles of the cellular automata.
A first glance at the possibilities of "Cellular automata" patterns:
http://www.mirekw.com/ca/ca_gallery.html
In this site you can see "all" possibilities:
Explaining the concept of cellular automata:
http://nirmukta.com/2009/12/10/complexity-explained-11-cellular-automata/
Lesson 2: Some patterns found on internet
Some existing results:
Patterns can be made by hand, but you could also program:
Google Image Search for "cellular automata knitting":
The teapot cover in the middle has a signature pattern for cellular automata (which are in fact related to fractals).
A lot of the patterns are based on triangles, some of these are very symmetrical, some are extremely asymmetrical.
http://boingboing.net/2009/05/27/celluar-automata-at.html
http://complementinversion.blogspot.com/2008/03/beautiful-science.html
http://www.complexification.net/gallery/machines/invaderfractal/
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