If you fed your sartorial requirements (a 3D mesh) into this system from James McCann and students at CMU’s Textiles Lab, it could quickly spit out a pattern that a knitting machine could follow ...

Use the Pattern Overlay style to simulate mesh because this style lets you apply any pattern, whether custom or predefined. By adjusting this pattern, you can make the mesh finer or coarser.

To address this, a research group co-led by Emery Berger, a professor of computer science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has developed a system they call Mesh that can automatically ...