Sunday, 19 April 2026

AR -- Pictarize

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



Thus I used my bird-airplane print at QUELAB as a "target" --  and projected an AUGMENTED REALITY airplane on top of that.  After going to this LINK (and maybe hit "publish" and "build) 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:


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


Then after clicking "publish" (and "build" the first time), I can "preview" the Augmented Reality in my smart phone or tablet:



Link to preview test the Augmented Reality experience



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

"wrench icon">Multiple
for sensing different targets and different AR experiences



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


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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:


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:





The UNM ARTSLAB has a tutorial about making AR inside of UNITY:

ABQ PRINT CRAWL

The ABQ PRINT CRAWL in Albuquerque happened on April 18, 2026:







April 17, 2026 -- PORTRAIT

The portrait session on Friday nights is free -- FRIDAY NIGHT FACES -- but the artists had to give their drawings to the sitter:



I "corrected" the drawing
by stretching it wider digitally


My original portrait drawing
is too long vertically


PRINTS

Celebrity sighting in Old Town Albuquerque
 on April 19, 2026 --
Shannon of Print Bound Press and Virgil Velasco


Half Moon Zine Market
May 1, 2026 -- 6 - 9 PM


THE PRINTERS PLANET Upcoming:

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The new GIZMO ARTS sign is up on the art studio building in downtown Albuquerque (though the building is not open yet).  The dinosaur refers to the one that stood outside the previous GIZMO store building...a dino that Dennis Liberty and I made decades ago (well, I swept up the studio):



I went to the Erika Blumenfeld talk at the UNM ARTS LAB on April 16, 2026: