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Knitting is programming. Read a knitting pattern and it's low level programming - knitters do not get enough credit.
by jkhalaj 1y ago
Knitting is programming. Read a knitting pattern and it's low level programming - knitters do not get enough credit.
- charcircuit 1y agoBy that logic any instructions is programming and everyone on earth are programmers.
- gbear605 1y agoI’m not sure that I’d say that it’s programming, but it is a pretty neat DSL
- MangoToupe 1y agoSure, why not?
- y-curious 1y agoSources say God is actually a software engineer
- danielrico 1y agohttps://xkcd.com/224 https://xkcd.com/224
- yjftsjthsd-h 1y agoInstructions to machines probably are. Instructions to humans aren't because humans interpret things themselves and exercise free will in execution.
- 2muchcoffeeman 1y agoWritten knitting instructions would benefit from a bit of standardisation and a system for depicting unusual stitches.
- taneq 1y agoTo an extent, yes (to the first part). For instance, the list of events scheduled for a performance is called a program.
- srean 1y agoSame with weaving, especially the way symmetry is weft in. Jaccard looms are too general, too unconstrained. I like shaft looms more gratifying. Their restrictions make it more interesting.
- arthursw 1y agoThen I have to advertise the work of my father: https://oliviermasson.art/en/4-publications https://oliviermasson.art/en/4-publications
- srean 1y agoOh WOW. It is from some summary of your dad's book that I had understood how shaft looms work. Such beautiful weaves and such a small world. Happy meeting you here. A reissue of your dad's book would be wonderful.
- lormayna 1y agoMy dad and my brother are both working on textile industry. There is a world on engineering a fabric, with mathematical algorithms and calculations.
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- dang 1y agoMaybe the closest match to the current thread: Tempus Nectit Knitting Clock - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35882735 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35882735 - May 2023 (10 comments) Other related links (did I miss any?): Consider Knitting - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44143199 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44143199 - May 2025 (143 comments) Algebraic Semantics for Machine Knitting - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43763614 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43763614 - April 2025 (20 comments) Vanishing Culture: Punch Card Knitting - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43024540 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43024540 - Feb 2025 (25 comments) Semantics and scheduling for machine knitting compilers (2023) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40828754 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40828754 - June 2024 (17 comments) Unraveling the physics of knitting - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40683130 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40683130 - June 2024 (15 comments) Show HN: Browser-based knitting (pattern) software - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40307089 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40307089 - May 2024 (29 comments) A WWII spy who hid codes in her knitting - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35613247 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35613247 - April 2023 (78 comments) Using the Silver Reed SK840 Knitting Machine - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32897255 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32897255 - Sept 2022 (19 comments) Enabling Personal Computational Handweaving with a Low-Cost Jacquard Loom - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27423963 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27423963 - June 2021 (6 comments) Is Knitting Turing Complete? (2013) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25715534 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25715534 - Jan 2021 (1 comment) ‘Knitting Is Coding’ and Yarn Is Programmable in This Physics Lab - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19950589 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19950589 - May 2019 (62 comments) Woven silk prayer book created with punch cards on Jacquard loom - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19252561 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19252561 - Feb 2019 (1 comment) Automatic Machine Knitting of 3D Meshes - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16536153 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16536153 - March 2018 (36 comments) Wartime Spies Who Used Knitting as an Espionage Tool - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14538038 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14538038 - June 2017 (12 comments) A Compiler for 3D Machine Knitting - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12143482 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12143482 - July 2016 (20 comments) Nintendo Almost Made a Knitting Add-On for NES - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4472337 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4472337 - Sept 2012 (22 comments) Knitting as programming - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3986758 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3986758 - May 2012 (12 comments) Simulated Knitting in Python - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3329533 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3329533 - Dec 2011 (7 comments) Knitting is an Acceptable Lisp - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=484292 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=484292 - Feb 2009 (6 comments) --- plus the related topic of Jacquard looms: How an 1803 Jacquard Loom Led to Computer Technology [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41052908 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41052908 - July 2024 (5 comments) Manual on Jacquard Hand Loom Weaver (Frame Loom) (2007) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23904850 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23904850 - July 2020 (2 comments) The Jacquard Loom: A Driver of the Industrial Revolution (2016) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18261993 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18261993 - Oct 2018 (4 comments) Jacquard Loom: Early Computer Programing (2011) [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9993953 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9993953 - Aug 2015 (9 comments) Jacquard Loom - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8479430 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8479430 - Oct 2014 (15 comments) Programming Jacquard's loom (1801) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=691175 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=691175 - July 2009 (2 comments)
- Cordiali 1y agoIf you happen to be there and like this sort of thing, the lace museum in Calais is definitely worth a visit: Cité de la Dentelle et de la Mode https://www.cite-dentelle.fr/en/ https://www.cite-dentelle.fr/en/ It's been about fifteen years since I visited, but they had a big section on the evolution of the techniques. It started from hand lace making, then progressed through periods of different looms. From memory, I'm pretty sure they had a punch-card loom about 200 years old, that was actually operating while I was there.
- eru 1y agoKnitting is more like executing a program. Designing a knitting pattern is programming.