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For those wanting to explore automatically converting art pieces to 1-bit you can use 8Bit Photo Lab on iOS or Android. Select the black and white palette and choose resolution and dithering type. Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ilixa.ebp&... App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/8bit-photo-lab/id6759910005
I'm adding a BubbleTea Picture widget to ntcharts. So the example is a (retro art of (retro art redone on retro tech)) done on (a redo of retro tech) ...
I've added it, but it's still on a feature branch :
https://github.com/NimbleMarkets/ntcharts/tree/picture/examp...
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…
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
Not unknown. It is signed "G. Clement", for Gerald Clement. The title is "Lesson 3d" because it actually is the third lesson in a tutorial for MacGrid, a software developed by Clement that teached people how to draw in MacPaint.
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…
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…
Perhaps you are unaware, but the great wave is a wood block print. That’s not to say that the strokes aren’t amazing, but they didn’t need to be created in one pass
I'm not sure if he had multiple print runs from fresh carvings, or whether he only carved it once?
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
> This masterpiece by an unknown artist Not unknown. It is signed "G. Clement", for Gerald Clement. The title is "Lesson 3d" because it actually is the third lesson in a tutorial for MacGrid, a software developed by Clement that teached people how to draw in MacPaint. https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/macgrid
Here is the next picture, "Lesson 3 E. Morning Light":
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If you are talking about page order or panel order (in something like manga), those go right to left. More specifically, manga panels follow the usual western comic book panel order, except with left and right flipped. However, when it comes to the actual text (regardless of the medium), it is always written either top to bottom or left to right. There is no right to left text writing in japanese. This isn't arabic,…
When written top to bottom, the columns are read from right to left. This is the most common format for printed text, especially in Hokusai's time. Also, when text was horizontal, it was frequently written right to left until the mid-1940s.[1] [1] https://www.mutantfrog.com/2009/08/08/the-history-of-japanes...
There is not a single instance I can think of where the actual text in Japanese would be read/written horizontally right-to-left.
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When written top to bottom, the columns are read from right to left. This is the most common format for printed text, especially in Hokusai's time. Also, when text was horizontal, it was frequently written right to left until the mid-1940s.[1] [1] https://www.mutantfrog.com/2009/08/08/the-history-of-japanes...
Again, even in the scenario you are describing, it is right-to-left when it comes to organizing columns/page layout (just like it would be with manga), but the text is still not right-to-left. It is top-to-bottom text vertical columns going left-to-right horizontally. There is not a single instance I can think of where the actual text in Japanese would be read/written horizontally right-to-left.
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%95%E3%82%A1%E3%82%A4%E3...
Per https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%A5%9E%E5%A5%88%E5%B7%9D%E6... , it is read 「冨嶽三十六景 / 神奈川沖 / 浪裏 」 which is top to bottom, then right to left, i.e. "神奈川沖" before "浪裏".
Arguments about modern Japanese text layout is beyond the scope of my original comment, and I don't think it's meaningful to discuss it anyway. Those who know and use Japanese know, and those who don't, don't need to know.
