FASHION designers beware: computers may soon make you obsolete, just as they
finished off typesetters and car workers. Scientists in South Korea have
developed software that designs clothes by allowing existing patterns to “mate”
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 “chromosome” 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…
