I 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.
1-Bit Hokusai's "The Great Wave" (2023)
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#52I 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.
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#53I 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 dead web makes things hard to find: https://www.rawpixel.com/image/7660768/image-art-vintage-pub...
Oh nice. I had not seen this before but it fits the description very well -- birds and tiling patterns.
The art work that I had in my had a swallow or a sparrow swooping down, looked at through chicken wire grid.
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That "Big Wave" variation with birds flying over the waves is strikingly beautiful. So dynamic and raw compared to the famous one. And how poetic the shapes of birds rhyme with the shape of waves. I'm gonna have to set aside some time to appreciate Hokusai's works again. Lovely.
The wave/birds juxtaposition is very Escher-like
Indeed.
Check this out
https://dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/1899550/1/11/
I don't know whether Escher was familiar with Hokusai's work but they shared a common interest in tilings and tesselations. Damned if I can find those Hokusai sketches on the web now.
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You mean like this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Great_Wave_off_Kanagawa_-... His "Big Wave" has that right left position https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Th... Love the birds in this one, especially the way it mirrors the wave crest fingers. Hokusai seems to have lunch ved these birds. They figure in his caged Bird pieces.
That "Big Wave" variation with birds flying over the waves is strikingly beautiful. So dynamic and raw compared to the famous one. And how poetic the shapes of birds rhyme with the shape of waves. I'm gonna have to set aside some time to appreciate Hokusai's works again. Lovely.
The wave is almost like a live character in this one. Like an angry god caught in a moment of fury.
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#56Man, this is the sort of stuff that makes me glad for Hacker News. Someone doing a hyper niche, high effort artistic project for no reward other than it's something they want to do. In a time where I have to second guess absolutely everything in case it's just AI slop there's something so wonderfully human about this sort of endeavour.
I would never have known it existed and, in some tiny way, my life is better now that I do.
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#57I 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.
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#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
Japanese characters are actually written left to right, but sometimes the page order is right to left. Writing that you might find on a website, e-mails, and scientific writing is typically actually written left to right. While these kinds of texts may have pages that are ordered from right to left, the text on the pages is typically written from left to right. It is typically only when text is written vertically (yo…
When written horizontally it is now left to right but earlier you would see horizontal right to left. But vertical was preferred especially in the past. You can see horizontal train stop signs written right to left in “In This Corner of the World” anime. Today all signage seems to be left to right. [edit] The history section in Wikipedia explains that this was a postwar script reform. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ja…
Horizontal right to left is an edge case of vertical writing with one character tall columns.
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#59somebody explained me that the correct way to appreciate this painting is to invert it on horizontal axis. the reason is, japanese is read from right to left. once you invert it you can appreciate it better
This is like saying westerners need to read mirrored manga to truly appreciate the artist’s intent. You can just start reading from the right…
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#60Hokusai's work is amazing prima facie. But then when you download the archive.org pdf files (see links in comment from @abetusk) and start to zoom in, the mastery of the strokes just blows your mind. The skill is ridiculous. The stylization, the capturing of the essence of a bird turning its neck by basically the minimum possible strokes while maintaining the feel of dynamism and suspended motion, it is just too much. Nothing makes me more emotional and romantically sentimental of beautiful japan from an era, which in my logical head, I know had lots of hardships and difficult life. He still manages to put that aside by the sheer power of the infusion of tranquillity in his paintings. It makes me long for a time and place which I would never see and probably was a lot harsher than I can see through the mind of his brushstrokes.
Hokusai has long been my favourite artist but I still keep finding more nuances in his work. He lived an 88-year long life dedicated to art. What an unbelievable genius master of a bygone era.