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1-Bit Hokusai's "The Great Wave" (2023)

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Re: 1-Bit Hokusai's "The Great Wave" (2023)

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Post by walrus01 »

KaiserPro wrote: post #5

I 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+ monitor at 256 colors or better. I think also something related to being a crisper image with early 1990s tech level of CRT monitor re: dot pitch if the image was entirely black and white?

For instance:

https://www.reddit.com/r/retrocomputing/comments/1oim0m6/hol...

https://www.reddit.com/r/retrobattlestations/comments/707q70...

Re: 1-Bit Hokusai's "The Great Wave" (2023)

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Post by dietrichepp »

cubefox wrote: post #27

More 1-bit pixel art: > MacPaint Art From The Mid-80s Still Looks Great Today - https://blog.decryption.net.au/posts/macpaint.html Previously discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44540402 This masterpiece by an unknown artist might be the best work of hi-res pixel art I have ever seen: https://blog.decryption.net.au/images/macpaint/lesson3d.png

I also run some accounts on BlueSky and Twitter that focus on 1-bit art:

https://bsky.app/profile/1bitdreams.bsky.social

https://x.com/1BitDreams

I see maybe 10 or 15 new pieces of 1-bit art posted on those platforms each week. A couple recent ones:

https://bsky.app/profile/ncesium.bsky.social/post/3miwkrqev5...

https://bsky.app/profile/oddbones.bsky.social/post/3mi7pedpn...

Re: 1-Bit Hokusai's "The Great Wave" (2023)

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Post by walrus01 »

usrnm wrote: post #2

It's insane, how far our industry has come in less than a single human lifetime. I wish I could see what will become of it in a few centuries.

It's also kind of insane how rapid the capabilities and tech grew in just a short 10-year span in an earlier period. The B&W mid 80s Mac art style of this reminded me of approximately the same era...

For example right now if you had a $3000 desktop PC (sans cost of monitor) that was built in 2016 it would probably still be a fairly capable Linux workstation.

If you went from 1986 --> 1996 the tech jump in equivalent cost would be something like a 12 MHz 286 with EGA video card, a few MB of RAM, a MS-DOS CLI environment to in 1996 being a Pentium 66 MHz+ or AMD equivalent with significantly more RAM, a SVGA video card, tons more I/O, PCI slots, running Windows 95 or an early Linux distro, and just a whole world more capability. The 286 would be quite obsolete and barely useful for anything.

Re: 1-Bit Hokusai's "The Great Wave" (2023)

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Post by TacticalCoder »

By default for me site's font renders using severe sub-pixel anti-aliasing so it looks all colorful instead of good old Mac black and white. And it's very noticeable.

Dig the wave though, upvoted.

EDIT: and I think there's actually an issue... Somehow there are kinda vertical "bands" where the sub-pixel anti-aliasing shifts. Like I've got a few characters looking too green (on the entire vertical), then a band of pixels looking too red. Very strange. Firefox / Linux but others sites don't do that. First time I see those "bands" with a font using sub-pixel AA.

2nd EDIT: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35866283 In that thread from 2023 on the same site, people are noticing the same weird rainbow/banding fx so it's not just my setup ; )

Re: 1-Bit Hokusai's "The Great Wave" (2023)

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Post by joe_mamba »

sph wrote: post #40
joe_mamba wrote: post #11

FYI, Hokusai also drew Hentai.

So? Go play the morality police elsewhere.

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.

Re: 1-Bit Hokusai's "The Great Wave" (2023)

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Post by joe_mamba »

tecleandor wrote: post #16
joe_mamba wrote: post #11

FYI, Hokusai also drew Hentai.

Sorry for the "actually", but Hentai didn't exist yet as a genre. It was "shunga", that is, erotic "ukiyo-e", a popular style at that time. Popular shunga works by Hokusai are "Two lovers" or the wrongly translated "The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife" (the original Japanese title is "female diver and octopus")

Please NO need to apologize, I don't mind being corrected by men of culture when I'm wrong.

Re: 1-Bit Hokusai's "The Great Wave" (2023)

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Post by TacticalCoder »

walrus01 wrote: post #44
usrnm wrote: post #2

It's insane, how far our industry has come in less than a single human lifetime. I wish I could see what will become of it in a few centuries.

It's also kind of insane how rapid the capabilities and tech grew in just a short 10-year span in an earlier period. The B&W mid 80s Mac art style of this reminded me of approximately the same era... For example right now if you had a $3000 desktop PC (sans cost of monitor) that was built in 2016 it would probably still be a fairly capable Linux workstation. If you went from 1986 --> 1996 the tech jump in equivalent…

> ... or example right now if you had a $3000 desktop PC (sans cost of monitor) that was built in 2016 it would probably still be a fairly capable Linux workstation.

Oh totally. I've got an actual workstation, with ECC mem, from 2015 and a Xeon with 14 cores / 28 threads (tbh I think that CPU alone was worth more than $2 K back then) and it's still plenty quick. I use that old workstation a server though and my "workstation" is a much more modern AMD 7700X (not the latest or quickest CPU by any mean but it's already quite beasty).

Re: 1-Bit Hokusai's "The Great Wave" (2023)

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Post by srean »

abetusk wrote: post #38
srean wrote: post #28

I 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

The best I could find were these: https://archive.org/details/hokusaiimayoyhi00kats/page/5/mod... https://archive.org/details/imayoykushikisev1kats/page/19/mo... Are you sure you're remembering right? Here's archive's list of Hokusai books: https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22Katsushika%2C+...

Thanks for the links. There are one or two in common with what I had in mind. I suppose those weren't his 'published' works but personal studies in geometry and tiling.

Re: 1-Bit Hokusai's "The Great Wave" (2023)

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Post by sph »

joe_mamba wrote: post #46
sph wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So? Go play the morality police elsewhere.

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?
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