Yuichi Hirose

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I am a PhD student in Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute, advised by Jim McCann in the Textiles Lab. My research interest lies in digital fabrication, particularly in solid knitting, a new fabrication technique to knit dense, volumetric objects, which I invented. I am developing a solid knitting machine to automate the process.
Previously, I graduated with a bachelor’s and a master’s from Keio University Shonan Fujisawa Campus, where I was advised by Hiroya Tanaka, and worked as a mechanical engineer developing 3D milling machines at Roland DG.

Research

Solid Knitting (2024)

3D volumetric knitting technique and machine, design tool, and programming language to automate it

Yuichi Hirose, Mark Gillespie, Angelica M. Bonilla Fominaya, James McCann
ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2024)
project page / paper / doi Best Paper (Honorable Mention)

Image of solid-knit pyramid Image of solid-knit sandals
Image of solid-knit cube. A person stands on it. Image of unraveling solid-knitcube

solid knitting samples
Many of the samples in this album are hand-knitted, not by the machine described in the paper. My PhD goal is to enable the machine to knit them.


Manual NC Plotter (2013)

“Drawing music box” that draws when a rack (bar-shaped gear) is inserted

Yuichi Hirose, Hiroya Tanaka
ACM SIGGRAPH 2013 Posters
doi

Course Projects

Linkage Optimizer (2024)

Trajectory simulation and optimization of five-bar linkage

Image of Linkage Optimizer

code / paper

STL Voxelizer (2023)

STL voxelizer using ray casting algorithm and baycentric coordinate system

Description image for STL Voxelizer

code

Weekend Projects

Remote Blocks (2016)

Customizable learning remote control

Image of Remote Blocks Image of Remote Blocks


Remote Volume (2012)

Remote control that changes channels when rotated


Handmade Balans Chair (2012)

DIY of the chair I wanted

Image of Handmade Balans Chair

how to make

Patent

  • Knitting Machine and Knitting Method (2018)
    Inventions on the solid knitting machine
    JP7103557B2 (Japan), PCT/JP2019/051406 (International Application)
    google patents

Grants, Scholarship & Awards

  • JASSO Scholarship (2024 - 2027)
    Research funding: 12,816,000 JPY
  • INNO-vation Program Disruptive Challenge Section (2018-2019, 2021-2022)
    Research funding: 6,000,000 JPY
    article
  • S-Booster JAXA Prize (2021)
    article 1 / article 2 / video
  • MITOU Advanced Program (2019 - 2020)
    Research funding: 4,567,000 JPY
  • Kamoe Art Center Artist-in-residence Program Artist of the Year

Talks & Exhibition

  • Talk at Tatsuki Hayama Lab, Keio University SFC (Jan. 2025)
    Solid Knitting in Digital Fabrication.
  • Talk at Hiroya Tanaka Lab, Keio University SFC (Jun. 2023)
    Knitting in Digital Fabrication.
  • Talk at AxLab, The University of Chicago (Oct. 2022)
    Solid Knitting Machine - Machine Which Makes Physical Objects Updatable.
  • Online talk at Dassault Systèmes 3DEXPERIENCE World (Feb. 2021)
    Solid Knitting Machine - Machine Which Makes Physical Objects Updatable.
    video
  • Online talk for Japán Alapítvány Budapest (Japan Foundation, Budapest) (Jan. 2021)
    Solid Knitting Machine - Machine Which Makes Physical Objects Updatable.
    video 1 / video 2
  • Talk at FabLab SENDAI – FLAT (as part of the Sendai Mediatheque Art Node Program) (Dec. 2020)
    完成させる必要のないものづくり (Making that doesn’t need to be completed).
    article / video
  • Talk and Exhibition at Kamoe Art Center (Nov. 2020)
    ソリッド・ニッティング・マシン 物体を更新可能にする機械 (Solid Knitting Machine - Machine Which Makes Physical Objects Updatable).
  • Talk and Workshop at Kamoe Art Center (Aug. 2019)
    Bits and Loops 立体を編む (Bits and Loops: Knit Solid Objects).
    article

Miscellanea