actually one of my grad students is doing a project involving using a
knitting machine for programming. although she's aware of the long history
of programming and even computer hardware to textile production, it seems
her main impetus is just that she's a long-time knitter. she also did a
project a few months back in which she displayed knit swatches along with the
corresponding knitting instructions as code. it turns out, knitting
instructions actually are code anyway:
1st and every alt rows: P (on wrong side)
2nd row: K1, *k1, k2 tog, yo, k1, yo, ssk, k2, rep from * to end
4th row: K1, *k2 tog, yo, k3, yo, ssk, k1, rep from * to end.
6th row: K2 tog, * yo, k5, yo, sk2p, rep from * to last 7 sts, yo, k5, yo,
ssk.
On Thu, 20 May 2004, Julian Rohrhuber wrote:
JR>
JR> and it demonstrates again how dense the relationship is between
JR> programming and weaving. Maybe it won't take a long time and we have
JR> programmers riots.
JR>
Received on Thu May 20 2004 - 21:47:46 BST