“Very Slowly Animating Textiles: Shimmering Flower”

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    Very Slowly Animating Textiles: Shimmering Flower

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    Shimmering Flower deploys a simple technology for non- emissive, color-change textiles. It functions as a woven animated display, constructed with conductive yarns and thermochromic inks together with custom electronics components. The textile is woven on a Jacquard loom, which allows the creation of beautiful and complex imagery. The flower image was created with custom drawing software.

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    POST, E. R., ORTH, M., RUSSO, P. R. and GERSHENFELD, N. 2000. E-broidery: Design and fabrication of textile-based computing, IBM Systems Journal Volume 39, 3 & 4, 840–860


Acknowledgements:


    This research is funded by the Hexagram Research Institute in Montreal, and by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada.
    I would like to thank Christine Keller for her weaving expertise and Arkadiusz Banasik for his color expertise.
    This research is based on Electric Plaid prototypes I developed at International Fashion Machines, which I co-founded in 2001.


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