If you're interested in showing photographs and paintings on a classic Mac, I actually made an app for that. It takes modern images, dithers them to 1-bit, and then exports the results to MacPaint format (encoded in MacBinary for easy transport). It works on modern versions of macOS:
https://oaksnow.com/retrodither/
1-Bit Hokusai’s ”The Great Wave”
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Re: 1-Bit Hokusai’s ”The Great Wave”
#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
> The author really nailed the pixel perfect fonts — it looks perfect on my low-DPI and high-DPI displays. It has some weird rainbow effect to it on mine, and the background flickers when I scroll.
Same here. Also a more minor issue for people like myself, the site causes some 'glare'(?) and is difficult to look at. I've had this issue since my childhood, now that I think of it. On paper (especially grids) and websites. I should probably figure out what it is.
Do you have astigmatism?
Re: 1-Bit Hokusai’s ”The Great Wave”
#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
Same here. Also a more minor issue for people like myself, the site causes some 'glare'(?) and is difficult to look at. I've had this issue since my childhood, now that I think of it. On paper (especially grids) and websites. I should probably figure out what it is.
Do you have astigmatism?
I just looked it up and based off of anecdotal evidence, I think the answer is yes.
I have had glasses for nearsightedness in my left eye but it isn't bad enough for most situations. Never had an eye exam in my life.
Re: 1-Bit Hokusai’s ”The Great Wave”
#24When viewing the site in Firefox, the font in the paragraphs has a very subtle rainbow effect. Here's a screenshot of it zoomed in: https://i.imgur.com/ir0MmPq.png
I was wondering how they achieved that effect, but it doesn't seem intentional. It's not part of the CSS, and I only see it in FF, doesn't happen in Chrome.
It goes away if I switch fonts, it looks like it's some weird result of how Firefox renders the site's "BitGeneva12" font. Another odd thing, it goes away when I used FF's "Take Screenshot" feature. Also only happens when the font is 12px in size.
Re: 1-Bit Hokusai’s ”The Great Wave”
#25When viewing the site in Firefox, the font in the paragraphs has a very subtle rainbow effect. Here's a screenshot of it zoomed in: https://i.imgur.com/ir0MmPq.png I was wondering how they achieved that effect, but it doesn't seem intentional. It's not part of the CSS, and I only see it in FF, doesn't happen in Chrome. It goes away if I switch fonts, it looks like it's some weird result of how Firefox renders the sit…
I assumed this was intentional to sorta look weird and retro. Sorta wild it's just Firefox messing it up.
Re: 1-Bit Hokusai’s ”The Great Wave”
#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do you have astigmatism?
I just looked it up and based off of anecdotal evidence, I think the answer is yes. I have had glasses for nearsightedness in my left eye but it isn't bad enough for most situations. Never had an eye exam in my life.
I have astigmatism. I had the same issue with grids, certain fonts with lots of vertical lines, and other regular high contrast repeating patterns.
Got some glasses a few years ago for the first time from an optometrist, and now it doesn’t bother me anymore.
So I would recommend getting it checked out.
Re: 1-Bit Hokusai’s ”The Great Wave”
#27When viewing the site in Firefox, the font in the paragraphs has a very subtle rainbow effect. Here's a screenshot of it zoomed in: https://i.imgur.com/ir0MmPq.png I was wondering how they achieved that effect, but it doesn't seem intentional. It's not part of the CSS, and I only see it in FF, doesn't happen in Chrome. It goes away if I switch fonts, it looks like it's some weird result of how Firefox renders the sit…
It's probably due to anti-aliasing. A similar thing happens on some versions of Windows with ClearType turned on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ClearType
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#28Very cool drawing, as a side note I’ve seen Stable Diffusion be able to achieve very good pixel art with some Loras and textual embeddings plus some skill. Also seen it able to do amazing img2img art like pictured here.
Re: 1-Bit Hokusai’s ”The Great Wave”
#29When viewing the site in Firefox, the font in the paragraphs has a very subtle rainbow effect. Here's a screenshot of it zoomed in: https://i.imgur.com/ir0MmPq.png I was wondering how they achieved that effect, but it doesn't seem intentional. It's not part of the CSS, and I only see it in FF, doesn't happen in Chrome. It goes away if I switch fonts, it looks like it's some weird result of how Firefox renders the sit…
Sub pixel antialiasing gone wrong?
Re: 1-Bit Hokusai’s ”The Great Wave”
#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
I just looked it up and based off of anecdotal evidence, I think the answer is yes. I have had glasses for nearsightedness in my left eye but it isn't bad enough for most situations. Never had an eye exam in my life.
I have astigmatism. I had the same issue with grids, certain fonts with lots of vertical lines, and other regular high contrast repeating patterns. Got some glasses a few years ago for the first time from an optometrist, and now it doesn’t bother me anymore. So I would recommend getting it checked out.
Thankyou for the recommendation! I'll go about scheduling that.