Crazy to see 4D in there, is it actually a 4D poster with the big 4 in there?
MacPaint Art from the Mid-80s Still Looks Great Today
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Re: MacPaint Art from the Mid-80s Still Looks Great Today
#32The lack of photorealistic fidelity gives your brain a bit of room to use imagination to fill in the blanks in your internal model. This fosters a certain type of engagement with the content that you don't get with photorealistic images.
Re: MacPaint Art from the Mid-80s Still Looks Great Today
#33Awesome! You can also find great art made with Deluxe Paint for the Amiga. The limitations from early computers in resolution and, most importantly, palette, create unique art styles: https://amiga.lychesis.net/applications/DeluxePaint.html
These seem worse IMO. Not sure if it’s the medium (eg more saturated colours, the particular website) or if I just like the compositions less.
They have more color but way less resolution, thus less detail. Pretty much what you would expect to see, given that the original Mac and Amiga came out around the same time.
Re: MacPaint Art from the Mid-80s Still Looks Great Today
#34Awesome! You can also find great art made with Deluxe Paint for the Amiga. The limitations from early computers in resolution and, most importantly, palette, create unique art styles: https://amiga.lychesis.net/applications/DeluxePaint.html
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"Press button for YOUR instant demoscene imitat". Sad.
Re: MacPaint Art from the Mid-80s Still Looks Great Today
#35Similarly, some cave paintings still look awesome.
Re: MacPaint Art from the Mid-80s Still Looks Great Today
#36rembrandt paintings from the 17th century still look great today
Yeah. Seems that art might be... timeless.
Re: MacPaint Art from the Mid-80s Still Looks Great Today
#37Really interesting. I’m wondering if there’s any LLM or image model on Hugging Face that has been trained specifically on low-res black-and-white images like MacPaint. Has anyone come across something similar or seen a fine-tuned model in this specific retro visual style?
Re: MacPaint Art from the Mid-80s Still Looks Great Today
#38Then we should probably mention http://macpaint.org (From page HTML source) Does anyone even remember why Netscape 4 was bad?
NN4 tended to crash more than NN3, it may have been due to the rushed development during the browser wars.
Re: MacPaint Art from the Mid-80s Still Looks Great Today
#39Then we should probably mention http://macpaint.org (From page HTML source) Does anyone even remember why Netscape 4 was bad?
Browsers were changing quickly back then, but if anybody remembers, it became Netscape Communicator and tried to expand to do everything..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape_Navigator#:~:text=Thi...
Re: MacPaint Art from the Mid-80s Still Looks Great Today
#40The 2nd artwork ('A Door Somewhere " - Bert Monrov) had me really confused for a moment. When I scrolled down to it, there was a sort of flickering effect, like as if it were a gif, with a flickering light adding ambience to the scene. But no, it's just how that sort of black & white shading looks when you scroll past it - amazing effect!
As the neighbour mentions, it's only a case of your display having ghosting. This effect is not present on eg. OLED screens.