Gallery: Look at These Clothes Made of 3-D Printed Chainmail
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Nervous System, the Boston-based design firm founded by Jessica Rosenkrantz and Jesse Louis-Rosenberg has been making stylish, 3-D printed jewelry for years, but have just developed new design software that could shake up the 3-D printing market. *Photo: Nervous System*
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Their tool, called Kinematics, transforms large, slow-to-print models into flat objects that even low cost printers can produce rapidly. *Photo: Nervous System*
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Each object starts as a 3-D model and the software breaks it down into triangular planes, unfolds the object into 2-D model, and adds hinges that allow the printed piece to be folded back into its original form—like a piece of plastic origami. *Photo: Nervous System*
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Unlike 3-D printed chainmail and other pseudo-textiles, Kinematics gives designers the ability to specify a balance between structure and flow. *Photo: Nervous System*
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Nervous system started by making jewelry, which has a simple set of constraints. *Photo: Nervous System*
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After successfully printing jewelry, Nervous System moved onto more complex garments, like dresses. One of Kinematics most useful features in the ability to reduce the volume of a given model by up to 85 percent, allowing designers to print big things with small printers. *Photo: Nervous System*
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Each 3-D printed piece is a chain of selectively laser sintered plastic featuring integral hinges that connect the parts and allow them to move freely. *Photo: Nervous System*
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Kinematics was inspired by a commission from Google who wanted to 3-D print stylish products while customers listened to a sales pitch for the uber-customizable [Moto X phone](http://www.motorola.com/us/FLEXR1-1/Moto-X/FLEXR1.html). *Photo: Nervous System*
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Louis-Rosenberg believes we're a long way to go before we're printing our wardrobes. "Once we see 3-D printed fashion actually being worn at a real event by someone not as a 3-D printed thing, but simply as fashion, that will be a sign it is ready to go mainstream." *Photo: Nervous System*
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Kinematics shares similarities with [Hyperform](http://stag-komodo.wired.com/design/2013/09/hyperform-formlabs-thinking-inside-the-box/), the inventive "4-D printing" process developed by MIT alum and TED Fellow Skyler Tibbets. *Photo: Nervous System*
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"Kinematics seems to have really clicked with people," says Louis-Rosenberg. "It's a great step towards engaging people in design and having consumers play a more active role in the things they own." *Photo: Nervous System*
