I'd need to sit in one before I decide how I feel about the idea of furniture being unraveled by pets and children. Sort of sounds like one of those ideas that works if you live alone. Plus,...
You can think of solid knitting as analogous to 3D printing. Just as 3D printers build shapes layer by layer, solid knitting builds shapes by adding knitted layer after knitted layer. But rather than being held together by glue or melted plastic, each new layer is stitched to the previous one.
I'd need to sit in one before I decide how I feel about the idea of furniture being unraveled by pets and children. Sort of sounds like one of those ideas that works if you live alone. Plus, imagine spilling something on it. Straight to the center of the couch.
It would take some effort to do unravel! To do furniture it would have to be very thick cord. The thing that I find more disturbing is the idea of accidentally cutting one of those loops and the...
It would take some effort to do unravel! To do furniture it would have to be very thick cord.
The thing that I find more disturbing is the idea of accidentally cutting one of those loops and the entire thing falls apart. Making the entire thing out of a single continuous cord means that if it fails anywhere it could fail everywhere.
While I find the idea of furnishing an entire apartment entirely with gordian knots, I question the practicality of it. It's novel, but it will take some degree of development to see if we can make products as useful, economical, or novel enough to compete with current fabrication techniques.
I think you're overestimating how fragile knitting is more generally. Most knitted clothing doesn't even come close to falling apart if you cut one loop. Of course, the specifics of this furniture...
I think you're overestimating how fragile knitting is more generally. Most knitted clothing doesn't even come close to falling apart if you cut one loop.
Of course, the specifics of this furniture idea will have to be tested in practice.
If it's like enough to regular knitting, there's usually enough structural tension that a single cut thread wouldn't immediately unravel. It could put the furniture at risk of unraveling, but...
If it's like enough to regular knitting, there's usually enough structural tension that a single cut thread wouldn't immediately unravel. It could put the furniture at risk of unraveling, but there's generally plenty of time to "fix" the thing.
I don't fully understand the whole concept here, so I don't think I'd be that worried about it but I'm not sure I'm correct.
It might only have one spot that it can be unravelled from, and it's not hard to imagine that spot having a lock or being high up off the floor. Obviously that won't help if it's literal yarn that...
It might only have one spot that it can be unravelled from, and it's not hard to imagine that spot having a lock or being high up off the floor.
Obviously that won't help if it's literal yarn that can be ripped by cat claws, but I'm assuming that the yarn is reasonably strong, given that all furniture except beanbags requires structural integrity.
Interesting idea. Essentially a new 3d printing technique. Not sure if it does anything better than existing techniques, but I’m sure applications will be explored over time. I have a hunch that...
Interesting idea. Essentially a new 3d printing technique. Not sure if it does anything better than existing techniques, but I’m sure applications will be explored over time. I have a hunch that its value right now is in the knitting algorithms, and the knitting machine configuration; the concept of producing reconfigurable furniture is just a part of the funding pitch to make it relatable to laypeople like us.
Check their YouTube channel. Here’s an early prototype: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWMN-c_F3-o Here’s where it starts in the video that was embedded in the article:...
I'd need to sit in one before I decide how I feel about the idea of furniture being unraveled by pets and children. Sort of sounds like one of those ideas that works if you live alone. Plus, imagine spilling something on it. Straight to the center of the couch.
It would take some effort to do unravel! To do furniture it would have to be very thick cord.
The thing that I find more disturbing is the idea of accidentally cutting one of those loops and the entire thing falls apart. Making the entire thing out of a single continuous cord means that if it fails anywhere it could fail everywhere.
While I find the idea of furnishing an entire apartment entirely with gordian knots, I question the practicality of it. It's novel, but it will take some degree of development to see if we can make products as useful, economical, or novel enough to compete with current fabrication techniques.
I think you're overestimating how fragile knitting is more generally. Most knitted clothing doesn't even come close to falling apart if you cut one loop.
Of course, the specifics of this furniture idea will have to be tested in practice.
That’s fair. You’re probably right.
You could presumably add redundant loops, so that if one section loses tension it's integrity is maintained by other sections.
If it's like enough to regular knitting, there's usually enough structural tension that a single cut thread wouldn't immediately unravel. It could put the furniture at risk of unraveling, but there's generally plenty of time to "fix" the thing.
I don't fully understand the whole concept here, so I don't think I'd be that worried about it but I'm not sure I'm correct.
It might only have one spot that it can be unravelled from, and it's not hard to imagine that spot having a lock or being high up off the floor.
Obviously that won't help if it's literal yarn that can be ripped by cat claws, but I'm assuming that the yarn is reasonably strong, given that all furniture except beanbags requires structural integrity.
I'd hate to drop food, keys, remotes, phones, earbuds, money etc down between the knits.
Interesting idea. Essentially a new 3d printing technique. Not sure if it does anything better than existing techniques, but I’m sure applications will be explored over time. I have a hunch that its value right now is in the knitting algorithms, and the knitting machine configuration; the concept of producing reconfigurable furniture is just a part of the funding pitch to make it relatable to laypeople like us.
Honestly I am most intrigued by the machine they built for this. I am desperate to know what it looks like and how it operates.
Check their YouTube channel.
Here’s an early prototype: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWMN-c_F3-o
Here’s where it starts in the video that was embedded in the article: https://youtu.be/uVRXWlpiyAc?t=65