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On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 11:03 AM, luigi scarso
And here's another one done with MetaPost and ConTeXt that I twiddled with when on a boring 6-hour flight recently: http://www.lucet.fi/2012/12/twpatterns/ (pattern D is the one I used as demo at EuroTeX) I still need to add the "how I did it" page under CrafTeX, explaining about the MetaPost code, but there were people who wanted to use the patterns, so I did that first. And then there's a simulation system for rigid heddle weaving (band/ribbon weaving, plain weaving) that I coded last weekend. I just need to get around to doing the threading charts for that, too, and then the MP code explained, too. I've also realized that a lot of the traditionally used patterning is binary - background-foreground, white-black, base-groove, base-relief, over-under ... on-off - and can thus be described with a simple monochrome chart on rectangular grid. The range of techniques is wide from weaving to knitting to fingerloop braiding to embroidery to mosaics, but the basic idea is always the same. When I read those charts, my brain does the on-off thing, background colour is 'off', pattern colour/foreground color is 'on'. E.g. in brocaded tabletweaving 'under' (usually 'under 1' is default, so I just remember the sequence of 'overs' and think '3-1-3' when I'm really doing 'over 3, under 1, over 1, under 1, over 3'. [Seems like I have seed to another article here, just don't know where it'll end up...] I'm glad you've enjoyed reading the interview. It's been long time coming, but I didn't get around to finishing it until last week. If my memory serves me right, Hans was the person who started the whole process by suggesting that I'd be interviewed. Don't remember any more what the main reason for this was, it's really been quite a while since then. Greetings from (very) snowy Finland, Mari