MUSEUM AR

Sculpture AR

Sign AR

My ART DREAM is to exhibit with AUGMENTED REALITY my AI Sculptures in the museums like we did in the Denver Art Museum in March 2026:

AUGMENTED REALITY -- Denver

My FAKE AI sculpture

exhibited in AUGMENTED REALITY

in front of the Denver Art Museum

THE AUGMENTED DREAM

More specifically, I want to exhibit my AUGMENTED REALITY sculptures in FIXED LOCATION in the Albuquerque Museum Sculpture Garden, as in this AI mock-up below:

AR -- Pictarize

Albuquerque Museum Sculpture Garden --

the Allan Houser sculpture on the right is REAL,

whereas the three AR sculptures on the left are FAKE

More RIGGING and MOTION -- MESHY

My earlier 2022 vision of my fake AR sculpture

in the Sculpture Garden of the Albuquerque Museum

Outcropping in DALL-E 2

My fake AR sculpture vision

in front of the ART VAULT gallery in Santa Fe

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PICTARIZE

I might be able to do with the free online software PICTARIZE -- as it allows me to position 3D objects over specific "TARGET" images (like I blogged about earlier).

3D SCULPTURE "TARGET"

I really want to use one "Target" Sculpture to summon two different AUGMENTED REALITY experiences.  The Bill Barrett abstract sculpture in front of the Albuquerque Museum has distinct views from different sides -- so I used the North and Head On views as "Targets" to summon two different AR sculptures in PICTARIZE. 

Go to THIS LINK and try to view two different AR experiences from the same sculpture in person at the Albuquerque Museum:

The Project

QR CODE

LINK to the AUGMENTED REALITY

FIRST AUGMENT

As viewed from the SOUTH side

AR "content": Paperpose.glb

South "TARGET" View

I took a photo of the SOUTH View, and used RemoveBG to remove the background, upscaled that in ChatGPT, and then used that simpler sculpture contour as a "Target" image view:

RemoveBG

ChatGPT

I removed the background in RemoveBG,

and upscaled in ChatGPT

(keeping the transparent background)

The Bill Barrett sculpture 

as viewed from the SOUTH Side

SECOND AUGMENT

As viewed HEAD ON

AR "content": 260316A.glb

Head On "TARGET" View

I took a photo of the HEAD ON View, and used RemoveBG to remove the background, upscaled that in ChatGPT, and then used that simpler sculpture contour as a "Target" image view:

RemoveBG

ChatGPT

The Bill Barrett sculpture

as viewed HEAD ON

NOTE: The First AUGMENT (from the South Side) only worked after I upscaled the "Target" image with ChatGPT.  That is, it worked from all the three photos online (in this web post).  I have not tried yet in the real world Albuquerque Museum.

The Second Augment (Head On) only worked from the first "Target" image, and not the two following photos on this blog page.  I have not tried yet in the real world Albuquerque Museum.

ALIEN JAVELINA

Alien Javelina project

QR CODE

and AUGMENTED REALITY LINK

QR CODE

"Target" image

The real "TARGET" image

is a 2D sign in the Sculpture Garden

 GENERATING 3D

If this works I would like to generate and add a lot of 3D Augmented Reality Sculptures to the Albuquerque Museum Sculpture Garden.  That means I would have to scan objects with Scaniverse (like we did in 2024); use MESHY online for 2D-to3D generations; or perhaps go 2D-to-3D locally with Trellis:

• (YouTube): Best 3D AI Generator Now Runs on 6GB VRAM! (Free & Local)
• trellis2gguf installation guide

(We tried unsuccessfully to install the 6 VRAM Trellis above on April 26, but used Claude instead of following the instructions)