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Garments being produced in Istanbul using Shima Seiki's computerized flat knitting machines.
The project takes live data streams of news stories around the world and translates
them into a pattern to be used in the construction of the garments. The nature of the
data streams means the patterns generated are all unique and unpredictable. The soft-
ware Processing (see Chapter 5) takes information from live news feeds from the in-
ternet, filters them and then converts the results into different visual patterns, both
graphical and typographic. Typographic patterns are composed according to their
time of publication, point size of headline and popularity. Graphical patterns are gen-
erated by the popularity of the news items and particular keywords. The frequency of
these keywords denotes the colour and scale of the shapes used to depict them - in
this case, a plus sign or bar.
Once the patterns have been generated, a knitting machine is used to produce the final
items of clothing. Each sweater is the culmination and interpretation of a specific
period or day. The designers used online global news or local Turkish news to gener-
ate the patterns.
