FASHION designers beware: computers may soon make you obsolete, just as they
finished off typesetters and car workers. 快猫短视频s in South Korea have
developed software that designs clothes by allowing existing patterns to 鈥渕ate鈥�
and produce offspring clothes. The process mimics selective breeding, and the
team says that anyone with a computer should be able to to create their own
ideal designs.
The first stage is to develop a clothing 鈥渃hromosome鈥� that encodes a design
just as human chromosomes carry the information that makes us individuals.
Hee-Su Kim and Sung-Bae Cho, computer scientists at Yonsei University in Seoul,
broke designs down into necklines, sleeves, cuffs and waistline, for example.
Each of these could take on one of a number of different styles, with its own
unique code. The team came up with 34 different styles of neckline, for example.
A fashion chromosome carries the code for a given neckline followed by the codes
for sleeves, cuffs, waistline and so on.
Breeding begins with a random collection of clothing chromosomes that pair
off to produce a new generation with some of the characteristics of each parent
as well as other features introduced by a random mutation of the codes. These
new designs appear on a computer screen for evaluation. The best ones are mated
again, their offspring assessed and so on. After many generations, the design
should become your ideal.
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Sung says the technique will become important as the clothing industry moves
back to creating single designs for individuals instead of mass producing one
design. He says: 鈥淚n future, consumers will order their favourite design from
the manufacturer, and the clothes will be produced according to that
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Malcolm Cox, senior lecturer in information technology and design at Central
Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London, agrees. 鈥淭hings are changing
fast in the fashion industry. This should allow individual designs to be made
without increasing the cost,鈥� he says.