KRЯRL DЯAWINGS: 2026

Thursday, 16 July 2026

July 15, 2026

I drew at FUSION in Albuquerque:

Wednesday, 15 July 2026

Additional ALBU-BRIJES...

More ALBU-BRIJES are trickling in.

VIRGIL VELASCO

Virgil Velasco carved a second ALBU-BRIJE and sent it to me on July 14, 2026::

Virgil Velasco's second ALBU-BRIJE print

KREA Realtime prompt:

"3d print in Mexican Alebrije colors with no background"

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View in

AUGMENTED REALITY

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ELLIE WEADOCK

Ellie Weadock plans to print a multi-color ALBU-BRIJE using the reduction method:

July 14, 2026

Drawn at Art Buddies in Albuquerque:

Rex Barron at the Frontier Restaurant on July 13, 2026

holding his painting below

that of the Sandias by Dennis Liberty

The PRINTERS PLANET

had a UFO opening in Madrid last weekend,

exhibit runs July 11 to August 8, 2026

Anthony Ryder is giving a workshop

at the New Mexico Art League in Albuquerque

from August 3 - 7, 2026

Mitchell set me up on the Quelab server so that I can upload and host Augmented Reality and Gaussian Splats, to show on the web

Sunday, 12 July 2026

MINDAR -- ALEBRIJES

tinyurl.com/albubrijes

ALEBRIJES PRINT MINDAR Link

I finally managed to use MINDAR to superimpose multiple colorful AUGMENTED REALITY Alebrijes over multiple black-and-white Alebrije prints:

Video of MINDAR AR Experience

MINDAR AUGMENTED REALITY

over ALEBRIJE Prints

MINDAR

AUGMENTED REALITY PRINTS

Scan the QR Code below -- or click on the Blue Link -- then hoover your smart phone over the black-and-white print images below to see the colorful Augmented Reality "ALBU-BRIJES":

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MINDAR AUGMENTED REALITY

We hung up the "ALBU-BRIJES" Prints at Quelab on July 12th to show off the MINDAR AUGMENTED REALITY -- anticipating their Grand Re-Opening on July 25th, 2026. The three below worked really well:

BARBARA ENDICOTT

MINDAR AUGMENTED REALITY

then hoover your smartphone over this print

to see the colorful 3D Alebrije below

Barbara Endicott

Augmented Reality "Albu-brije"

VIRGIL VELASCO

MINDAR AUGMENTED REALITY

then hoover your smartphone over this print

to see the colorful 3D Alebrije below

Virgil Velasco

Augmented Reality "Albu-brije"

HENRY MORALES

MINDAR AUGMENTED REALITY

then hoover your smartphone over this print

to see the colorful 3D Alebrije below

Henry Morales

Augmented Reality "Albu-brije"

The Unwilling Participant at Quelab testing the

the MINDAR AUGMENTED REALITY

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CRITICAL POINTS

in MINDAR

1) The key was first uploading all the print images to the IMAGE TARGET COMPILER, which makes a "TARGETS.MIND" file. That single file contains all the "target" images in an order "0,1,2,3..." The "target" images are the black-and-white prints in the real world.

2) Then one has to list all the AUGMENTED REALITY files between the <a-assets> </a-assets> tags. In this case I listed all the GLB files (which are in the same folder as the HTML CODE). These are the colorful 3D AUGMENTED ALEBRIJES that will superimpose themselves over the black-and-white prints when one hoovers their smart phone over the prints:

<a-asset-item id="target0" src="alebrijev.glb"></a-asset-item>

3) Each AUGMENTED REALITY file has to be associated with each numbered "target" image -- and listed individually in the <a-entity></a-entity> tags:

<a-entity mindar-image-target="targetIndex: 0"> <a-gltf-model rotation="0 0 0 " scale="1 1 1" position="0 0 0.5" src="#target0"> </a-entity>
<a-entity mindar-image-target="targetIndex: 1"> <a-gltf-model rotation="0 0 0 " scale="1 1 1" position="0 0 0.5" src="#target0"> </a-entity>

HTML CODE

<html>

<head>

<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" />

<script src="https://aframe.io/releases/1.4.2/aframe.min.js"></script>

<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/mind-ar@1.2.5/dist/mindar-image-aframe.prod.js"></script>

</head>

<body>

<a-scene mindar-image="imageTargetSrc: targets.mind;" color-space="sRGB" renderer="colorManagement: true, physicallyCorrectLights" vr-mode-ui="enabled: false" device-orientation-permission-ui="enabled: false">

<a-assets>

<a-asset-item id="target0" src="alebrijev.glb"></a-asset-item>

<a-asset-item id="target1" src="alebrijek.glb"></a-asset-item>

<a-asset-item id="target2" src="alebrijeb.glb"></a-asset-item>

<a-asset-item id="target3" src="alebrijeh.glb"></a-asset-item>

<a-asset-item id="target4" src="alebrijecc.glb"></a-asset-item>

<a-asset-item id="target5" src="alebrijec.glb"></a-asset-item>

</a-asset-item>

</a-assets>

<a-camera position="0 0 0" look-controls="enabled: false"></a-camera>

<a-entity mindar-image-target="targetIndex: 0">

<a-gltf-model rotation="0 0 0 " scale="1 1 1" position="0 0 0.5" src="#target0">

</a-entity>

<a-entity mindar-image-target="targetIndex: 1">

<a-gltf-model rotation="0 0 0 " scale="1 1 1" position="0 0 0.5" src="#target1">

</a-entity>

</a-entity>

<a-entity mindar-image-target="targetIndex: 2">

<a-gltf-model rotation="0 0 0 " scale="1 1 1" position="0 0 0.5"src="#target2">

</a-entity>

</a-entity>

<a-entity mindar-image-target="targetIndex: 3">

<a-gltf-model rotation="0 0 0 " scale="1 1 1" position="0 0 0.5" src="#target3">

</a-entity>

</a-entity>

<a-entity mindar-image-target="targetIndex: 4">

<a-gltf-model rotation="0 0 0 " scale="1 1 1" position="0 0 0.5" src="#target4">

</a-entity>

</a-entity>

<a-entity mindar-image-target="targetIndex: 5">

<a-gltf-model rotation="0 0 0 " scale="1 1 1" position="0 0 0.5" src="#target5">

</a-entity>

</a-scene>

</body>

</html>

ISSUES

The two print images below did not work as "TARGETS" (probably because they were not clear enough):

Casandra Encinia's dog "Albu-brije" print did not work with MINDAR, but did work with another AUGMENTED REALITY program:

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Casandra Encinias' "Albu-brije" dog print --

Did not work in MINDAR,

but did work with another AR program

AUGMENTED REALITY

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Midjourney

JITTER

There is also a lot of jitter -- when the AUGMENTED REALITY image shakes too much in front of the print.

MINDAR discusses that with a TRACKING CONFIG post

This is further discussed in the following posts

The solution seems to be to add some extra lines at the beginning of the <a-scene mindar-image=...> tag (as shown deep in the post #379)

<a-scene mindar-image="filterMinCF:0.0001; filterBeta: 0.001; imageTargetSrc: https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/...

PREVIOUS ALEBRIJE POSTS

Lenticular Alebrijes

PREVIOUS MINDAR POSTS

I have be working on this for a year and posted my agonies and ecstasies:

AR PROGRAMS

MINDAR -- the one this blog post is about -- free, but has to be "hosted" on a server

<model-viewer> -- free, but has to be "hosted" on a server
8th Wall (defunct, but now Open Source)
Artivive (paid)
Web-enabled AR experiences (GPS)
AR CODE (with Gaussian Splatting) (paid)
Adobe Aero -- discontinued as of December 2025
Worldcast

Saturday, 11 July 2026

July 10, 2026 -- PORTRAIT

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

Midjourney

Horny Toad climbing the screen door

HERSTORY

The HERSTORY Print Collective calendar is coming out on July 28, 2026:

Schema Art/Tech Meetup on Wednesdays in Albuquerque

(YouTube): Create Stunning 3D Web Pages with Google ModelViewer & Three.js (Step-by-Step Tutorial)

(YouTube): 5 Scariest Line-Artists in Recent History

PREVIOUS PORTRAITS

PORTRAIT SESSIONS 2025

PRINTING ALEBRIJES

Henry Morales pulled the ALEBRIJE Prints in his studio on July 9th -- and I helped!

PRINTING T-SHIRTS

Henry used an antique book press to print his woodblocks on t-shirts:

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