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Measuring machine assists fashion majors
By Narmeen Karzoun
On March 26, 2012
The machine was pitch black inside.
A calm voice began to recite instructions. After a few moments of silence an array of
flashing lights appeared. As quickly as the lights began, they ended.
"Okay, you can come out," Lynn Boorady, associate professor of technology, told the
student inside the machine.
Boorady explained that the student's exact body measurements had been taken and
placed onto a 3D model.
An image of the body appeared on a computer screen. The right arm and leg were shaded
in green and the left arm and leg shaded in red, allowing Boorady to pinpoint specific
measurements on the student.
The $40,000 TC Squared body scanner was delivered and set up on the third floor of
Caudell Hall this past summer. The machine was funded through student technology fees
and is available to all students and professors.
Fashion technology students are currently working with the body scanner and applying
the body measurements they obtain from their models to the software, OptiTex, in order
to design patterns for clothing.
"Essentially, it digitizes your body and then is able to use that digital information
to produce wire frame models," said Richard A. Butz, chairman of the technology
department. "It's extremely accurate and very efficient and quick, so in terms of cost
effectiveness, you're going to see industries using this more and more."
Boorady has been working with body scanning technology since 2003 in order to see how
better sizing systems can be developed for people in the United States. Her main focus
now is body scanning specific populations of firefighters. She is trying to determine if
there is a body size for firefighters that would warrant a certain sizing scheme.
"We've been looking at different populations to see if there are any other anomalies
because of this job: If you have a certain body shape or do you develop a certain body
shape?" Boorady said.
Boorady said that with the help of body scanning technology, the entire sizing system for
the United States, which has not been changed since the 1940s, has finally been updated.
Associate professor Emine Ercan is also using the body scanner in order to research a
better sizing system for bras. Ercan said because many women are wearing them all day
long, the way a bra fits is very important. The body scanner allows her to be able to take
the exact measurements of the breast.
"It can be used in a very informative way, we can take body scans of a lot of teenagers
and then show that this is what the average teenager looks like," Boorady said, "so that
teenagers are comparing themselves to something realistic instead of something that is
absolutely unobtainable."
To comment on this story, contact The Record at bscrecord@gmail.com.
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