Constructed with AI
SAN FRANCISCO
- REAL San Francisco Art Institute commercial in 1982 (with Father Guido Sarducci) -- I enrolled in a night class there right after seeing that ad
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MEXICO CITY
- FAKE TENOCHTITLAN 2026 -- generated in AI
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NEW YORK
- REAL CENTRAL PARK TOWER on Billionaire's Row is now right next to -- and hanging over -- the ART STUDENTS LEAGUE in New York, where I took classes in the mid-80s
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ALBUQUERQUE
- FAKE ice sculptures placed in a REAL burnt out building next to the old Quelab 2.0 in Albuquerque
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ARIZONA
- We put on the REAL TUCSON SCULPTURE FESTIVAL 2013 -- and also in 2014 and 2015
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HOUSTON
- FAKE. How I imagine a random gallery in Houston
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AUGMENTED REALITY
ALBUQUERQUE
The Ultimate Goal is to place my FAKE Sculptures in the Albuquerque Museum Sculpture Garden using AUGMENTED REALITY:
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SANTA FE
DRAWINGS
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My line drawings often look better in DOTTED LINES -- after alter them with AI using KREA Realtime with the prompt: "dotted lines":
Download: Dotted8.SVG
PRINTMAKING
I laser cut one of Virgil's images into a metal mesh silk screen, and it came out great. However I did a bad job making a quick test print:
I bought another relief printed t-shirt
with designs by Anna Maraziti
at the SECRET GALLERY in Albuquerque
I am awaiting a new EXQUISITE TESSELLATION linocut from AnaMaria Samaniego:
AI and AR ART
ULTIMATE ART GOAL
My current obsession is to exhibit my FAKE sculptures at the Albuquerque Museum Sculpture Garden using AUGEMENTED REALITY. I'm not quite there yet, but the WORKFLOW pipeline is coming along with a little help from AI:
- I first use KREA Realtime to transform a lot of my drawings into 2D "sculptural" images
- MESHY seems to be the best program to turn those 2D images into 3D objects
- <model-viewer> works really well to make "Free Form" Augmented Reality from GLB objects
- However I have to change a line of code -- as noted in AR REPAIR -- for the Augmented Reality to work
- PICTARIZE uses "Targets" to conjure and project the AR objects. This is necessary to place the sculptures in specific places. Moreover this software can use multiple "Targets" to conjure multiple "assets/objects."
- GOT STUCK -- MINDAR is basically the same as PICTARIZE, but does not host the AR experience on a server. The challenge then is to figure out how to scrape the code and host it on a server of my choice (GitHub should work)
PROCESS
FIRST STEP: I used AI in KREA Realtime to convert my drawings into 2D sculptural images, prompting KREA Realtime "sculpture" in the description:
SECOND STEP: 2D to 3D -- I convert the AI "sculptural" image into a GLB object using the 3D options in -- KREA or MESHY, or MakerLab or Hunyuan 3D-2 (Comfy option).
EXTRA STEP: In the image below I asked Nano Banana/FLOW to convert the knelling "sculptural" figure into a T-Pose before turning it into a 3D file in MESHY -- making it easier to animate:
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The process
from line drawing into 3D file
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BONES vs BALLS
Two Different Types of Animations
APPARENTLY the GLB Animations have "balls," while the FBX animations have "bones". With "bones" one can adjust and alter the "rigged" 3D animations in BLENDER:
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The "rigged" T-pose 3D file (left)
ready to be animated as an FBX --
vs the GLB animation with balls (on the right)
THIRD STEP: Placing AUGMENTED REALITY sculptures in the Albuquerque Museum Sculpture Garden. I managed to do this with PICTARIZE online software using 2D museum signs as "TARGETS":
PICTARIZE worked great for placing a 3D airplane in front of a 2D "Target" print at Quelab:
"Target" for 3D plane when viewed in
- Can deliver several different AR experiences from several different "Targets" -- after the viewer clicks only one URL.
- Works with 3D animated images with an Android phone -- but NOT with an iPhone
- Works with 2D "Target" images, like museum signs
- I could NOT successfully use a sculpture as a "Target"
FOURTH STEP: I want to host the AR program on my own server, or the server at Quelab.
I can host the AR code made with <model-viewer> -- after I change a line of code. However the AR object is NOT placed in a specific place in the Albuquerque Museum Sculpture Garden -- but rather materializes on any close flat surface.
To anchor an AR object to a specific spot with "Targets," I used MINDAR (made by the same person who made PICTARIZE, HiuKim Yuen), and followed the tutorial.
However I have not yet successfully gotten that code to work on a server of my choice -- though the demo HTML does work from my SWCP server.
The AR figure does not emerge from this "Target"
after going to this link:
I am almost there!
- We were also trying to make 3D animations to import into RAYLIB -- however that video game program only accepts limited basic animations
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from an online program -- Map Club
LINKS
3D Objects
download in GLB format
- 260401Fb.GLB (316.14 KB) -- April 1, 2026
- 260406H.GLB (325.79 KB) -- April 6, 2026
- 260406K.GLB (814.62 KB) -- April 6, 2026
- 260407.GLB (404.43 KB) -- April 7, 2026
- 260408D.GLB (321.88 KB) -- April 8, 2026
- 260413B.GLB (587.19 KB) -- April 13, 2026 -- Mexico City
- TPOSE.GLB (932.62 KB) -- More RIGGING and MOTION -- MESHY
- BOX.GLB animation (1.44 MB ) -- More RIGGING and MOTION -- MESHY
- 260413B.GLB (587.19 KB) -- More RIGGING and MOTION -- MESHY
- meshangry.GLB (1.17 MB) -- More RIGGING and MOTION -- MESHY
- this GLB file (Quelab airplane) -- AR -- Pictarize
- 260420.GLB (1.19 MB) -- April 20, 2026 -- Subway
- Paperpose.glb (Thin man) -- MUSEUM AR
- 260316A.glb (Fat man) -- MUSEUM AR
AUGMENTED REALITY
- Running Jaguar -- RIGGING in 3D
- Dancing Man animation -- More RIGGING and MOTION -- MESHY
- TARGET -- Quelab airplane -- AR -- Pictarize -- tinyurl.com/queplane
- Did Not Work: TARGET -- from drawing (GitHub) -- April 20, 2026
- TARGET -- Venus -- April 20, 2026
- Did Not Work: TARGET -- https://krrrlkrrrl.github.io/Queplanev7qoi/ -- April 22, 2026 -- Ice Sculptures
- Did Not Work: 2 TARGETs -- Sculpture AR -- MUSEUM AR
- TARGET -- Mindar Demo (from my SWCP link) -- MINDAR again
- Did Not Work: TARGET -- Mindar Demo (from my blog link) -- MINDAR again
- Did Not Work: TARGET -- Sculpture (from my SWCP link) -- MINDAR again
VECTOR FILES
- 260422__Bb.SVG (71.12 KB ) -- April 22, 2026 -- Ice Sculptures
- DOTTED LINES post has 10 VECTOR FILES to download
SOFTWARE
3D
- Babylonjs for 3D viewing
- Marble Worlds
- SuperSplat
- 8th Wall Github -- Open Source AR Software
- AR.js Studio -- GPS AR posted on GitHub (does not work for me)
- AR.js documentation
- Worldcast
- GLB Compressor to very small files
- Optimize GLB
- Raylib -- for programing VR environments
- Accurig2
- KIRI auto-rigging
- AutoRig Pro (for Blender)
- Blastframe
- Spline
OTHER
- (Hugging Space) See-Through-Demo
- Godot
- Download GEMMA 4 -- AI program from Google that runs locally (April 1st)
- LuBan
ALGORAVES
I got back on Midjourney again on April 10th, after they previously bounced my payment again. They released their newest model 8.1 on April 30th on the regular website (though "8.1 Alpha" was available earlier on a special testing website on April 14th). One still has to go through the "personalization" survey before they will let you use the new 8.1 model.
The newest 8.1 model does look better in the daily showcase examples -- but again, the outputs all converge to a certain aesthetic. Now the results leans towards a Kate Moss heroin chic, having evolved from a Tim Burton aesthetic in earlier AI models. In contrast, I want to use AI to generate unique artistic styles, instead of just the preferred consensus style.
MORE
- MECCA records closed in downtown-ish Albuquerque after 28 years. End of an Era.
They demolished the building
across from my house on April 12th --
photo from April 30th
Dino in the GIZMO sign --
(Yaupon tea is a coffee native to the USA
so I would like to try it)
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