Using Photoshop, I brought in a fantastic National Geographic photo of a great owl to manipulate into a weaving for the TC2 Jacquard Loom
I rendered down the image to 8 graduations of black and white in Photoshop
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Since the TC2 Digital loom is threaded with clank warps, the image in Photoshop needed to be inverted. This will allow the black to be woven as white when doing the final weave.
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I separated each of the 8 gradations onto their own layer. Using my extensive weaving structure library, I was able to apply the correct weave structure to each individual layer of color through the pattern overlay feature in Photoshop. This ensures a smooth gradation on the final weave image. By only using a black and white scale, the TC2 Jacquard Loom will be able to read how the pistons are supposed to move for each layer of color based on the pattern.
The final weave! As you can see, the graduation was smooth and inverting the image in the weave file allowed for the final render to be correctly applied.
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TC2 Jacquard Loom Digital Weaving - Owl
Using Photoshop, I brought in a photographs of a great owl, St. John Bridge, and a hand drawn picture of my own. Using an extensive library of weave structures, I manipulated each photograph into a weaving for the TC2 Jacquard Loom. Since the TC2 can only read black and white for the movement of the pistons, each structure had to follow this color pattern.
