Every piece of clothing has a story: There’s far more to a $155 polo shirt than a yard of fabric, four buttons and a length of thread.
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One of the first jobs I had, I was told that the Gerber file format had origins in numerical controlled machines for cutting fabric. Later investigation led to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Gerber
The inventor of the Gerber format had developed NC systems for sewing fabric. So maybe I heard it wrong about the cutting part, but the connection is there.
One of the first jobs I had, I was told that the Gerber file format had origins in numerical controlled machines for cutting fabric. Later investigation led to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Gerber
The inventor of the Gerber format had developed NC systems for sewing fabric. So maybe I heard it wrong about the cutting part, but the connection is there.