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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 duskwuff »

spicyjpeg wrote: post #63
convenwis wrote: post #51

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.

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…

Snow is great for what it is, but it's limited (for now) to a small set of early Macintosh systems, up through part of the Macintosh II series. Basilisk II and SheepShaver are still the best option available for later Macintosh systems.

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

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Post by Brybry »

TacticalCoder wrote: post #45

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 pix…

Thanks for this. I was really confused while looking at the CSS and not seeing anything that could cause the rainbow effect I was looking at.

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

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Post by harveynick »

noisy_boy wrote: post #60

Hokusai'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…

You probably already know about this video series, in just in case you don’t: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLK-Wicsj5rAasS2g7e-Z9eFUd...

One of the most joyful things I’ve seen on YouTube.

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

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Post by vardump »

walrus01 wrote: post #41
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…

Crispiness has a lot to do with DAC quality. That’s why Matrox display adapters were so popular in the nineties. Crispy, high quality DAC.

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

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Post by chickensong »

srean wrote: post #54
sph wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

This is Shingata komon-cho 新形小紋帳 (Book of New Patterns) from 1824, held by the British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/A_1973-0723-...

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

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Post by wonnage »

rafabulsing wrote: post #77
wonnage wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

I do think that there's some loss in translated manga, actually! When the mangaka is creating the layout, they're conceptualizing the flow not only of the panels, but also of the text inside panels, to be RTL. Translating the text into a LTR language without mirroring the image, makes it so that your eyes have to zig zag around a bit more, going RTL panel wise, but LTR text box wise. Compared to the problems that mir…

I think there’s already enough lost in translation that the text direction is the least of your worries haha

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

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Post by rafabulsing »

wonnage wrote: post #87
rafabulsing wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I do think that there's some loss in translated manga, actually! When the mangaka is creating the layout, they're conceptualizing the flow not only of the panels, but also of the text inside panels, to be RTL. Translating the text into a LTR language without mirroring the image, makes it so that your eyes have to zig zag around a bit more, going RTL panel wise, but LTR text box wise. Compared to the problems that mir…

I think there’s already enough lost in translation that the text direction is the least of your worries haha

For sure it's a very minor impact, all things considered, but an impact nonetheless.
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