KRЯRL DЯAWINGS: AR -- Pictarize

PICTARIZE is really simple for making AR. This program uses an image as a "TARGET" -- and then projects an AUGMENTED REALITY image on top of that image:

Pictarize Studio - web augmented reality platform

I did that in this project -- when I used my bird-airplane print at QUELAB as a "target" image -- and projected an AUGMENTED REALITY airplane in 3D on top of that image.

After going to this LINK one only has to hoover his smart phone over the print (like scanning a QR Code) to get the 3D airplane to show up over the print exactly:

AUGMENTED REALITY 3D airplane

summoned and hoovering over the 2D print

I used this image from my PRINT below as a "TARGET" -- and uploaded this GLB file as the AR "content."

PhotoMosh LINOCUTS

After going to the AR site

hoover your smart phone over this bird-airplane target image

to see a 3D plane over it in Augmented Reality

The PROJECT building page --

with the "target" image below

the 3D airplane in AR

Then after clicking "PUBLISH" in the upper right hand corner (and then "build" on the next page), I can "preview" the Augmented Reality in my smart phone or tablet:

Screen after clicking "PUBLISH" in the previous page

Hit "Preview" and this screen then pops up. The URL and QR code on the left take you to the scanning page -- then one can test that AR with the "target" images on the right by hoovering their smart phones over them:

Link to experience and test the Augmented Reality

The above QR Code to the AR link

Smaller URL to the AUGMENTED REALITY-- tinyurl.com/Queplane

MULTIPLE TARGETS

NOTE: One can add MULTIPLE TARGETS in the build, with multiple corresponding AR objects -- but they have to hit the "wrench icon" and choose "Multiple" in the Project Settings (before saving, publishing and building) for multiple AR experiences to work:

Click the "WRENCH" icon

to choose multiple AR targets and experiences

"wrench icon">Multiple

for sensing different targets and different AR experiences

One QR Code

leads to two AR experiences from two "target" images

PICTARIZE is free to try out, but costs $25 a month to "release" (which I imagine means "host").

Now I have to figure out how to get that code and host the AR on a website of my choosing.

*****

I found PICTARIZE on the MindAR.org website.

CORINA ESPINOSA was using MindAR to make several AR experiences from several "target" images -- after going to only one website -- at the 2025 CURRENTS NEW MEDIA exhibition in Santa Fe:

CURRENTS NEW MEDIA Exhibition in Santa Fe

Scanning several "target" images for several AR experiences --

Corina Espinosa's exhibit at CURRENTS in 2025

Apparently she used both A-Frame and MindAR to create this AR exhibition. I tried to do the same but failed last year.

My goal is still to use AUGMENTED REALITY -- with "TARGETS" -- to place my fake sculptures in specific places in the Albuquerque Museum Sculpture Garden -- as I did with AI mock-up below, next to Allan Houser's real sculpture:

KREA

PAPER AI

March 16, 2026 -- GALLERY

April 13, 2026 -- Mexico City

FLOW

Deep Dream Generator