This is what keeps me coming back to HN. Someone spent years recreating woodcut prints pixel by pixel on a quadra 700 using aldus superpaint at 512x342. I feel like the constraint is what caused it to be. The 1-bit forces you to solve every gradient and texture with pure composition, which means you can't cheat with color or resolution. I forgot who said it, but constraints breed creativity.
1-Bit Hokusai's "The Great Wave" (2023)
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Re: 1-Bit Hokusai's "The Great Wave" (2023)
#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
Excuse me but can you read? Where did you see me bringing up anything critical of morality in my statement about the author's work? Go play reddit moderator somewhere else please.
What does your "for your information" bring to the table, other than sidetracking the discussion? What are we supposed to do with it?
>What does your "for your information" bring to the table, other than sidetracking the discussion?
Adding extra curiosity context, that other readers might not be aware of, is not "sidetracking the discussion", but simply contributing to the conversation while respecting the HN rules of "be curious".
Now tell me what does your unwarranted criticism and personal insults bring to this discussion other than being an obnoxious PITA and breaking HN rules?
Did your parents teach you, that you can criticize someone without insults?
>What are we supposed to do with it?
Same thing you do with any other curiosity info you read on HN.
Re: 1-Bit Hokusai's "The Great Wave" (2023)
#63I know this guy is doing this on actual Mac hardware but curious if there is a point of view on the best older Mac emulator out there? Ideally I'd like to run this on a current Apple Silicon Mac. It is hard to understand what is the best approach (which I realize might be because this is somewhere between legally grey and not legal). I don't want a browser based option.
I would recommend trying out Snow (https://snowemu.com/), a somewhat recently released 68000 Macintosh emulator that is cross-platform and focuses on low-level accuracy, unlike prior efforts which traditionally preferred HLE approaches and suffered from compatibility issues as a result.
As with any other emulator, you will have to obtain system ROM dumps and disk images of the software you want to run. There is no clear precedent on the legality of acquiring said files through any means, however it's generally believed that you should be in the clear if you dump them yourself from a Mac you own and an original physical copy of the software. Of course, doing so is non-trivial and requires at the very least a working Mac and a way to get files in and out of it (e.g. a SCSI drive emulator that uses an SD card for storage), so it's understandable why virtually everyone resorts to the gray area approach of downloading ROMs instead.
Re: 1-Bit Hokusai's "The Great Wave" (2023)
#64I am having a surprisingly hard time finding Hokusai's exercises on tesselations. Has search become really this bad ! Anyway wanted to show his sketch of a bird behind chicken wire fence/cage. Similar birds here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47901702
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Re: 1-Bit Hokusai's "The Great Wave" (2023)
#65I know this guy is doing this on actual Mac hardware but curious if there is a point of view on the best older Mac emulator out there? Ideally I'd like to run this on a current Apple Silicon Mac. It is hard to understand what is the best approach (which I realize might be because this is somewhere between legally grey and not legal). I don't want a browser based option.
I’ve spent many hours using Basilisk II.
Re: 1-Bit Hokusai's "The Great Wave" (2023)
#66Having seen this image since inception, I never noticed Mt. Fuji in the background.
I didn't notice the boats
A lot of Ukiyo-e wood prints have small details that mean a lot to locals. I enjoy learning about them on the NHK's English channel.
In this case, the boats are fast (each has a bunch of crewmen) and were used to catch valuable fish. And the boats on the right have two people not at work (barely discernable in TFA's recreation). Those people were on break, getting ready to replace tired oarsmen. That way, the boat could be moving at all times.
Re: 1-Bit Hokusai's "The Great Wave" (2023)
#67I have been moaning about this n the comments below about not being able to find Hokusai's study on tesselations and patterns. Finally found it.
https://dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/1899550/1/11/
Have submitted as a post
Re: 1-Bit Hokusai's "The Great Wave" (2023)
#68Impressions of The Great Wave Off Kanagawa 神奈川沖浪裏 are currently on view at a record 7 places around the world. https://greatwavetoday.com
Each one of the remaining originals is subtly different due to the woodblock printing process, and must be stored for the majority of the time due to being susceptible to fading in light.
Re: 1-Bit Hokusai's "The Great Wave" (2023)
#69For those wanting to explore automatically converting art pieces to 1-bit you can use 8Bit Photo Lab on iOS or Android. Select the black and white palette and choose resolution and dithering type.
Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ilixa.ebp&...
App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/8bit-photo-lab/id6759910005
Re: 1-Bit Hokusai's "The Great Wave" (2023)
#70I really like the layout and style of the site. I never had a mac growing up so its not a nostalgia thing, I just appreciate the compactness with contrast The art is also very good. Its hard to get that level of "colour" with limited resolution
The portrait mode black and white layout of this is similar to the high resolution black and white displays which were in use with some more expensive Mac based "desktop publishing" setups in the late 1980s and early 1990s. This was before anyone could reasonably afford a 20" full color monitor, and it also would have been too expensive or I/O intensive on the video expansion card to be capable of driving a 1280x1024…
The "dot pitch" is a measure distance between two "reds" of the dots in the shadow mask or the width between two reds on an aperture grille (which is really only horizontal dot pitch). Since black and white monitors don't have either, they can get much much sharper because that layer just doesn't exist. It's limited only by the focus of the beam and bandwidth/ frequency of the signal.
(As my layman understanding goes that is)
Monochrome CRTs are delicious to look at. A feast for the eyes. I love them. Compact Macs are often the cheapest way to get them, especially for their wonderful paper white phosphor, though I'm a sucker for amber phosphor.