variation B processing    january, 2004    j.tarbell

200 x 200 pixels 22 stiching heads 500 x 500 pixels 64 stitching heads 800 x 800 pixels 128 stitching heads

A nice story of weaving computational textile with hundreds of thousands of stitch instances. Stitches appear as points of intense color surrounded orthogonally by lesser gradients of that same color (pixel thread). Each movement of the stitch head remains locked in a random, yet grid enforced pattern. A gradual horizontal shift to the entire surface closes the textile in a self-interlocking loop.

0000 about 5000 individual stitches are laid down in the first 10 seconds of growth

0001 Growth continues in a left to right fashion.

0002 Once a complete stitch layer loops into itself, textile cohesion occurs.

0003 A final computational texture laid down with 500,000 individual stitches

2000 Unfinished texture 2001 Unfinished texture 2002 Unfinished texture

Stitches Variation B allows the stitch head to make larger vertical movements. This causes vertical striping although stripes are incomplete and seldom run the height of the surface.

1000 Unfinished texture

1001 Unfinished texture

1002 Unfinished texture

1003 Unfinished texture

3000 Textile formation in heavy gravity

Every stitch also lays down slight shadow and highlight pixel values so that areas of extreme thread concentration gain a dimensional appearance. This is especially evident when the number of total stitches runs beyond one million, as in the image above.