The DesignAdvisor: An intelligent knitwear design aid

dc.contributor.author	Woodford, Brendon J	en_NZ
dc.date.copyright	1997-03-26	en_NZ
dc.identifier.citation	Woodford, B. J. (1997, March 26). The DesignAdvisor: An intelligent knitwear design aid (Dissertation, Master of Science). Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10523/1284	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10523/1284
dc.description.abstract	Alliance Textiles in collaboration with the Department of Computer Science at the University of Otago developed a computer based knitwear design program that enables a member of the public to easily and quickly design a knitted garment. Once the garment is designed, a knitting pattern is produced and from which the person could knit his/her garment. The system is extremely flexible to use but a tool is only as good as the person who uses it. Inexperienced knitters may experience complications with the designs they create. Having a program that could provide interactive advice or assistance would benefit these types of people. This project is concerned with the design and implementation of such a program which we called the DesignAdvisor. By analysing the design style of the garment and comparing it to pre-defined design styles, comments on the appropriateness of the garment in terms of the design style it most closely matches can be made. These comments, which are a combination of text and graphics, have been designed to instruct the user in aspects of good knitwear design. This thesis describes the theories surrounding intelligent design aids and their role in the design of DesignAdvisor, details the implementation of DesignAdvisor, and proposes modifications and improvements that can be made to the original implementation.	en_NZ
dc.format.mimetype	application/pdf
dc.subject	computer based	en_NZ
dc.subject	knitwear design program	en_NZ
dc.subject	knitwear design	en_NZ
dc.subject.lcsh	T Technology (General)	en_NZ
dc.subject.lcsh	QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science	en_NZ
dc.subject.lcsh	QA76 Computer software	en_NZ
dc.title	The DesignAdvisor: An intelligent knitwear design aid	en_NZ
dc.type	Dissertation	en_NZ
dc.description.version	Unpublished	en_NZ
otago.bitstream.pages	198	en_NZ
otago.date.accession	2005-12-08	en_NZ
otago.school	Computer Science	en_NZ
thesis.degree.discipline	Computer Science	en_NZ
thesis.degree.name	Master of Science
thesis.degree.grantor	University of Otago	en_NZ
thesis.degree.level	Masters Dissertations	en_NZ
otago.openaccess	Open
dc.identifier.eprints	163	en_NZ
otago.school.eprints	Graphics & Vision Research Laboratory	en_NZ
otago.school.eprints	Computer Science	en_NZ
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