AAA -- Artificial Art Aspirations

I would like to push my figure drawings even further with ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE in 2026, probably by downloading AI programs and running them locally on Quelab computers.  The NVIDIA DGX Spark-4TB seems like it would run these big programs, plug-and-play, but it cost $4000:

NVIDIA DGX Spark - 4TB

AI PROGRAMS

 to be downloaded and run locally

HUNYUAN 3D from China (Tencent) came out about January 25, 2025:

• (GitHub) Hunyuan3D-2 -- it is Open Source and can be run locally *
• (Hugging Face) tencent/Hunyuan3D-2
• (Docker Hub) Hunyuan3D-2 to install locally
• (GitHub) pinokiofactory/Hunyuan3d-2-lowvram to be run locally *
  • (pinokio) Hunyuan3D-2-LowVRAM for running locally (only needing 6 Gigs of VRAM?) *
• (GitHub) Hunyuan 3D-2 add-on to BLENDER
• (YouTube) Install and Use Image and Text to 3D Model Add-on In Blender - Hunyuan3D-2 AI Model - Run Locally

 PartCrafter *

• (Hugging Face) alexnasa/PartCrafter
• (GitHub) PartCrafter 
• (GitHub) JackDainzh / PartCrafter-Windows (for local install) *

DiffSynth-Studio/Qwen-Image-i2L -- can quickly train a LoRA from just a few images (even as little as one).

• (YouTube): GPT 5.2, realtime video editor, AI stereo videos, mobile AI agents, full body control: AI NEWS

• Adam installed TRELLIS locally from the NVIDIA website

THOUGHTS

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE took big strides in 2025.  However I didn't experience any FUNDAMENTAL AI ART leaps last year:

• IMAGES: I could already alter my drawings with an AI Model trained on my drawings with Open AI in 2022, and Leonardo.AI in 2023
• 3D: I could generate 3D objects from 2D images since December 2022
• VIDEOS: I could upload an image and make AI videos since 2023.  
• PROGRAMS: I even used AI to make my first art programs in 2024. 

The online AI ART programs have improved, no argument there.  However I will probably have to push into Apps and Vibe Coding (like using Claude VS CODE) to to get anything substantially different in art:

• Gemini Co-Drawing
• SVG Generator
• IMAGE TO VOXEL ART

I ended last year posting the worst AI Slop I made in 2025, though ironically using all the AI firepower I could muster.  I remixed a better version with this animated GIF below:

AAA -- Artificial Art Aspirations

Midjourney

EzGIF

I improved some bad AI Slop from 2025

The longer version

 of the animated GIF above

 

SNAPMAKER U1

On January 4, 2026, Dan brought in a SNAPMAKER U1 -- a four color cartridge 3D printer -- which was funded for $46,000,000 on Kickstarter:

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ANIMATION of the printing process,

and how it handles color

The SNAPMAKER prints color Layer by Layer

• I downloaded the SNAPMAKER Slicer -- LUBAN v4.15.0 (146.8 MB)

• The colored 3D files lost their color when imported them into the Slicer (such as the Voxel Javelina).  I believe that the color has to be "baked" into the 3D file in order to get SNAPMAKER U1 to print in color.

Bringing in the New Year 2026 at Quelab

OPEN AI is developing GUMDROP -- and AI Pen.  Online there is a lot of push back on it, but this sounds pretty exciting to me..  I like to think with my pen by drawing, and welcome any way to enhance that experience/thought process. 

• AWS Imagine Grant