kniterate notes 7

This is the seventh in a series of blog posts about the Material Programming Project. We are developing malleable knitting software for the Kniterate, a semi-industrial knitting machine. This post is about working with colour. The first post, on the Knitout project, is available here. In the past few weeks we’ve been working a lot more with Patchwork, playing around with some different ideas to make compelling demos that can demonstrate the capabilities of both softwares. Until now, we’d been very focussed on technical aspects of the editor, and it’s nice to explore more what Knitout can do. Colourwork in Patchwork chee’s crab One discussion we had about the affordances of Patchwork is the ability to bring lots of different types of files into conversation with one another. One way (though not the only way) to think about knit is as a fairly linear medium, where rows are knit one after another. This lends itself to an interpretation of sequential blocks, which provide an opportunity…