KRЯRL DЯAWINGS

Thursday, 28 May 2026

May 27, 2026

I came in to draw the last pose at FUSION in Albuquerque:

DIE CUTTING

During Hack Night at Quelab (May 27, 2026), Adric fashioned some dies for die cutting, with a thin bandsaw blade. He first laser cut a pattern into a hard bamboo tile, and then pushed the bandsaw blade into the tile, teeth first:

Adric had made a "Q" die

with a bandsaw blade

Inserting the "Q" die and the paper to cut

CRUNCH!

The "Q" die and the leather press

Ultimately he only got an embossing in the paper, no die cutting.

Apparently the leather press pushed the bandsaw blade deeper into the tile.

However we made a lot of progress, and I think this homemade die approach should work next time.

Earlier we used the same leather press tool to punch out linoleum tiles:

PRINTMAKING -- UNM/UTEP Print Exchange,

plus Die Cutting Tessellations

We successfully used a tessellation die

to punch out a tessellation tile in linoleum

Rob Atkinson's new website

MAYAROPE AUGMENTED REALITY

I used the new KREA 2 model to make more Abstract Rope sculptures, from a Moodboard I made Public -- "SURREAL ORGANIC COILISM" -- with the images from my Mayan ROPE blog post:

KREA

FLOW

ROPE SCULPTURES

around a Mayan temple

KREA

FLOW

Midjourney

EzGIF

Watch another ANIMATION of this scene

of the light changing throughout the day

VIEW in 360° -- and also by pushing your mouse over the image in the following YouTube:

KREA

FLOW

Microsoft Photos Legacy

Spatial Media Metadata Injector v2.1

Marble Worlds

MAYAN ROPE SCULPTURES in 360° -- AI SLOP

KREA

EzGIF

I like the movement around the form

implied in rope patterns

KREA

EzGIF

Animation of Abstract Rope images

generated with the new KREA 2 model

ROPE IMAGES

KREA

Midjourney

EzGIF

KREA

AutoTracer

VectorPaint

Download: "6BWrope.SVG" (141.97 KB)

KREA

AutoTracer

VectorPaint

Download: "1BWrope.SVG" (172.22 KB)

KREA

Midjourney

EzGIF

KREA

AutoTracer

VectorPaint

Download: "2BWrope.SVG" (249.77 KB)

KREA

AutoTracer

VectorPaint

Download: "3BWrope.SVG" (178.35 KB)

KREA

AutoTracer

VectorPaint

Download: "4BWrope.SVG" (170.09 KB)

KREA

AutoTracer

VectorPaint

Download: "5BWrope.SVG" (236.78 KB)

KREA

AutoTracer

VectorPaint

Download: "7BWrope.SVG" (144.10 KB)

KREA

FLOW

Does this have an affinity

Daniel Widrig in the Neues Museum Nürnberg?

KREA

FLOW

Is there an AI program

that will translate the rhythm in this sculpture

into music?

KREA

Meshy

Paint 3D

EzGIF

Free Online GLB Optimizer & Compressor

GLB Compressor

babylonjs

<model-viewer>

Download: "mayarope.GLB" (2.60 MB)

AUGMENTED REALITY

I uploaded the still image to Google's GEMINI and asked to make it 3D by generating THIS OpenSCAD CODE:

KREA

FLOW

GEMINI

OpenSCAD

Paint 3D

EzGIF

Generated in GEMINI with OpenSCAD code

Download: "mayarope.STL" (1.45 MB)

KREA

FLOW

KREA

FLOW

KREA

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PROCESS

I made a PUBLIC Moodboard -- "SURREAL ORGANIC COILISM" -- from the images of my MAYAN ROPE blog post -- and used that to generate new rope images with the new KREA 2 model:

"SURREAL ORGANIC COILISM"

Moodboard made with the images from my

MAYAN ROPE blog post

CONCLUSION

These rope sculptures don't have much of my drawing DNA in them. However I identify with the aesthetic, as the rope shows the motion around the object. This is one of the things what I aspire to do with my figure drawings. Moreover the rope adds a tactile element to the image, inviting the viewer to touch it.

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