Sunday, 13 September 2026
Friday, 11 September 2026
September 9, 2026
I drew at FUSION in Albuquerque:
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The above image was "denied"/censored when I tried to upload it to Midjourney. However it is abstract, and there is nothing offensive and wrong with the image:
FLOW prompt:
"Can you break this figure down into shapes"
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FLOW prompt:
"Can you break these two figures down into shapes"
FLOW prompt:
"Can you break these two figures down into shapes"
"Upload denied by AI Moderator.
Please try a different image."
UNM ART MUSEUM
The UNM ART MUSEUM's current exhibition -- ABUNDANCE: NEW ACQUISITIONS FROM 2016 TO 2026 -- features the work of TIM JAG. I went to see it on September 11, 2026:
PRINTS
- I also went to the exhibit in City Hall -- Of Grief & Dreams -- by Naomi Natale
Tuesday, 8 September 2026
AI Free Form
I used the new edit approach to "combine images" and further edit them in Midjourney 8.2 to generate the surreal fantasies below:
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GAUSSIAN SPLATS
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2D to 3D -- Holograms -- Augmented Reality
2D to 3D
(13.62 MB slow loading)
Download the individual Gaussian SPZ files:
260910SPZ.ZIP (8.91 MB)
GAUSSIAN to pseudo-HOLOGRAM
I would love to make a hologram with a 3D Gaussian Splat. So I did the next best thing, and put a 3D Gaussian Splat on the Looking Glass Go Hologram display:
I started with this 2D AI image
I first converted the 2D image into a 3D Gaussian Splat in ComfyUI using TripoSplat -- in PLY format (not SPZ) -- as displayed in the SuperSplat scene below:
(6.79 MB slow loading)
I then uploaded that PLY Gaussian Splat into G Splat Explorer from Looking Glass -- to convert it into a PNG to then upload to BLOCKS:
Finally I then transferred that "hologram PNG" from BLOCKS to the Looking Glass Go hologram display:
I uploaded the PLY Gaussian Splat
to the G Splat Explorer
and viewed/transferred it to
The Gaussian Splat image
on the Looking Glass Go at Quelab
- Ultimately it would have been easier just to make the Looking Glass hologram from the original 2D image, rather than first converting it into a Gaussian Splat.
LINKS:
GAUSSIAN to AUGMENTED REALITY
(workaround)
I generated a PLY Gaussian Splat in TripoSplat in ComfyUI, and then converted that into a GLB file with Spalt2Mesh. Finally I used <model-viewer> to make an AUGMENTED REALITY scene:
- The TripoSplat in ComfyUI workflow has an experimental convert to GBL option, but that leaves a lot of holes in the 3D object. Spalt2Mesh seems to work better.
There is no good way to DIRECTLY import Gaussian Splats into Augmented Reality, though there might be a paid solution.
LINKS:
- Splat2Mesh
- Download
- (YouTube): 3DGS to Mesh conversion software test movie part2
- (Reddit): Gaussian Splats Can Now Be Converted Into Editable 3D Meshes Locally — No GPU Required
- <model-viewer>
ANIMATION
For fun, I like pushing AI further and animating the Augmented Reality screen shots in Midjourney:
Animated AR Screen Shot
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Note: We revived the AI computer at Quelab -- as some stealth crypto mining programs were hogging up all the resources, and preventing CompyUI from generating Gaussian Splats for me. Adam took off "Nvidia mining gpu(?)" first. And on September 9, 2026 Adric took off two instances/folders of XMRig (one installed on August 13th and the other installed on August 22nd). Apparently they were installed in the CompyUI folder as they needed a Python script to work. Also apparently ComfyUI can be hacked to mine crytocurrency.
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