I was reading a pdf on "lines of non-extension" when I realised that when applied to latex garments it might produce some interesting results.
relevant quote from the pdf:
lines of non-extension are curved lines you can draw on the human body that don't change length when moving the body. once you have a mapping of these lines it's almost trivial to embed high-strength non stretching fibers into the clothing along these lines, which will keep the garment close to the skin.
so anyone have any thoughts on this? anyone with a sewing machine should be able to implement something like this, except for the mapping of the lines, which I haven't found a good source on yet.
you can find the PDF I have been reading here: http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/610519.pdf
relevant quote from the pdf:
Quote:The garment leaves the wearer with a sense of its presence at all times, even under pressure, but without any noticeable constraint to any body movement, and with no bunching of the material. The garment feels like a second skin that conforms to the body and that deforms naturally with the body. Even though the material is nonextensible, the garment feels like a stretchy garment that completely conforms to the body by stretching and shrinking without wrinkling.
lines of non-extension are curved lines you can draw on the human body that don't change length when moving the body. once you have a mapping of these lines it's almost trivial to embed high-strength non stretching fibers into the clothing along these lines, which will keep the garment close to the skin.
so anyone have any thoughts on this? anyone with a sewing machine should be able to implement something like this, except for the mapping of the lines, which I haven't found a good source on yet.
you can find the PDF I have been reading here: http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/610519.pdf
(This post was last modified: 20 Sep 2014, 01:12 by Like Ra.)