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ddinh | 8 years ago

Something like this is already being done for made-to-measure apparel, e.g. https://www.mtailor.com/ for men's clothes and https://www.topologyeyewear.com/ for glasses (also - does anyone know if there's a service like this for women's clothing?). I do wonder how they're determining scale - seems fairly simple if you have two focal lengths, but these services seem to support single-camera phones as well. Are they getting data from the accelerometer to see how much you move your phone when you move it around your body/face?

The main problem now seems to be fully automating clothing manufacturing - it would be pretty cool to be able to scan your body and have a machine print out perfectly fitting clothes, no human required.

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on_and_off|8 years ago

Nice ! Exactly what I was looking for !

The fabrication process itself might be the hardest part.

If you look at how high end jeans are made -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ek5520fSymY

Everything is stitched manually with comfortable size tolerances.

Actually, this might be a false problem .. I don't know how precise the measures need to be in order to fit.

So we might not have to automatize fabrication; just to change how sewing patterns are applied.