3D color printing is really a good choice.3D color printer is a new technology which is used frequently nowadays. This was the initial pattern which inpired my design. It is an erractic weave, where eaach strand performs in an atypical weave.
This piece of the fabric most interested me. This strand wraps itself around several other strands, binding the fabric together. If you were to pull on the piece, it would not come out of the fabric. By binding itself to other pieces, the fabric becomes stronger. I was interested in this idea.
After several trials twisting two or more strands together, this was the most successful module. There are a few reasons this became the most successful. First, the two strands wrap around each other twice. With only one it becomes to easy to separate. If more twists are added the two strands become too dense and do not function properly. The second reason this module works is the ability for replication. This design allows for additional members to be added without another connection. Other attempts failed to do this. the third reason is the ability to bind two strand together. Each piece wraps the next two strands together, allowing for an overlap of binding. This greatly increases the structural stability of the fabric. If the module did not allow for this binding of multiple strands, the fabric would fail.
The variation in the fabric occurs in the thickness of the strand. The strands are able to connect and increase in size seemlessly. The strands start thin, are thickest in the middle, and return to the thinest size again. If I were to rethink this scheme, I would most likely reverse this process and make the strands go from thick-thin-thick. I think theis would give the fabric a liitle more structure, as it broke only in the small strands on the very edge.
This is the model as a whole. The variation can be seen in this view, as well as the connection method.
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