Thursday, 30 April 2026

APRIL SUMMARY -- 2026

In April I continued to push AI to generate both FAKE Sculptures and FAKE Exhibitions -- based on my real drawings:

Constructed with AI

SAN FRANCISCO

MEXICO CITY

NEW YORK

ALBUQUERQUE

ARIZONA

HOUSTON


AUGMENTED REALITY
ALBUQUERQUE

The Ultimate Goal is to place my FAKE Sculptures in the Albuquerque Museum Sculpture Garden using AUGMENTED REALITY:







DRAWINGS





















PRINTMAKING

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AI and AR ART

ULTIMATE ART GOAL

My current obsession is to exhibit my sculptures at the Albuquerque Museum Sculpture Garden using AUGEMENTED REALITY. I'm not quite there yet, but I the WORKFLOW pipeline is coming along with a little help from AI:
  • I first use KREA Realtime to transform a lot of my drawings into 2D sculptural images
  • MESHY seems to be the best program to turn those 2D images into 3D objects
  • <model-viewer> works really well to make "Free Form" Augmented Reality from GLB objects
    • However I have to change a line of code -- as noted in AR REPAIR -- for the Augmented Reality to work
  • PICTARIZE uses "Targets" to conjure and project the AR objects.  This is necessary to place the sculptures in specific places.  Moreover this software can use multiple "Targets" to conjure multiple "assets/objects."
    • GOT STUCK -- MINDAR is basically the same as PICTARIZE, but does not host the AR experience on a server.  The challenge then is to figure out how to scrape the code and host it on a server of my choice (GitHub should work)
I used AI in KREA Realtime to convert my drawings into sculptural images:







 LINKS

3D Objects
download in GLB format

AUGMENTED REALITY

April 29, 2026 -- San Francisco Art Institute

I drew at FUSION in Albuquerque:

The San Francisco Art Institute is my favorite building in the world, and has a beautiful terrace overlooking both Alcatraz and downtown.  I took a couple of drawing classes there in the early 80s -- unfortunately it closed in 2022:
“The minute I walked through the archway on Chestnut Street,” said alumna Felicita Norris, “I saw all this amazing art in the courtyard. A chill came over my body and I knew that this was the place where I needed to be.” 

True story -- I discovered that "chill" and signed up for The San Francisco Art Institute right after I saw this pitch from none other than Father Guido Sarducci:



FLOW prompt:

Meanwhile, back in New Mexico :
an infestation of roadrunners in the gallery

Animations of my drawings-to-sculptures


THE DRAWINGS




KREA Realtime prompt:
"paper sculpture"




KREA Realtime prompt:
"paper sculpture"



KREA Realtime prompt:
"dotted lines"

KREA Realtime prompt:
"paper sculpture"



KREA Realtime prompt:
"dotted lines"

KREA Realtime prompt:
"paper sculpture"



KREA Realtime prompt:
"dotted lines"

KREA Realtime prompt:
"paper sculpture"



KREA Realtime prompt:
"dotted lines"

KREA Realtime prompt:
"paper sculpture"

KREA Realtime prompt:
"paper sculpture"



KREA Realtime prompt:
"dotted lines"

KREA Realtime prompt:
"paper sculpture"



KREA Realtime prompt:
"dotted lines"

KREA Realtime prompt:
"paper sculpture"



KREA Realtime prompt:
"dotted lines"

KREA Realtime prompt:
"paper sculpture"



KREA Realtime prompt:
"dotted lines"



KREA Realtime prompt:
"paper sculpture"



KREA Realtime prompt:
"dotted lines"

KREA Realtime prompt:
"paper sculpture"



KREA Realtime prompt:
"dotted lines"

KREA Realtime prompt:
"paper sculpture"



KREA Realtime prompt:
"dotted lines"

KREA Realtime prompt:
"paper sculpture"



KREA Realtime prompt:
"dotted lines"

KREA Realtime prompt:
"paper sculpture"