Use of artificial intelligence for creative textile designs

Abstract

Creativity in the design process is not only based on the problem solving ability or the utility of the outcome of the process, but it is also based on producing novel outcomes satisfying aesthetic expectations. Due to the creative aspect of the design process depending on defining and referring to evolving human defined aesthetic values and taste, applying artificial intelligence to textile and apparel design is one of the major challenges. This research aims to explore a new system for creating textile print designs by artificial intelligence methods. A dataset including various patterns such as geometrical shapes, animal figures, flowers and abstract print designs were collected from a textile printing company to be assessed and used to generate new patterns by AI. As a result, original textile print designs were generated by integrating machine learning systems. It is suggested that AI based generative design algorithms have immense potential to create novel textile design samples.