一比特的北斋《神奈川冲浪图》

一比特的北斋《神奈川冲浪图》
1-Bit Hokusai's "The Great Wave" (2023)

原始链接: https://www.hypertalking.com/2023/05/08/1-bit-pixel-art-of-hokusais-the-great-wave-off-kanagawa/

这个项目是对经典的怀旧致敬：在老式麦金托什电脑上，将葛饰北斋的标志性作品《富岳三十六景》木刻版画重现为1位像素艺术。艺术家五年前开始这个项目，旨在通过一丝不苟的像素放置达到“心流”状态，并向早期的Mac美学致敬，特别是苏珊·凯尔富有影响力的MacPaint图像。每一幅作品都在原始的麦金托什屏幕分辨率512x342下，使用Aldus SuperPaint 3.0等软件，在Quadra 700或PowerBook 100等机器上创作——这些硬件让艺术家回忆起童年时光。目前项目暂停，第一幅完成的作品《神奈川冲浪图》已经分享，并可作为640x480 Mac屏幕的桌面图案下载。该项目采用知识共享许可，任何复制都需要署名。虽然雄心勃勃，但它几乎完全由怀旧和对真实再现的渴望所驱动。

## 黑客新闻讨论摘要：1-Bit Hokusai 的《神奈川冲浪图》一位用户以引人注目的 1-bit 风格重现了 Hokusai 的《神奈川冲浪图》，在黑客新闻上引发了热烈讨论。用户称赞其美学风格，让人联想到早期的 Macintosh 图像和单色 CRT 显示器。对话深入探讨了在有限分辨率下实现细节的技术方面，强调了 DAC 质量的重要性以及单色 CRT 由于没有点距而产生的独特清晰度。许多评论者欣赏这幅作品本身的艺术性，指出 Hokusai 对线条和形式的掌握，并分享了进一步探索其作品的资源，包括对镶嵌和图案的研究。关于如何“正确”欣赏这幅作品出现了一点争论，一些人建议将其镜像以符合传统的日语阅读方向。讨论还涉及了可以促进创新的创造性约束、显示技术的演变以及像素艺术的持久吸引力。几位用户分享了用于创建类似 1-bit 艺术的模拟器和软件的建议。最终，该帖子庆祝了一项独特的艺术努力以及它所代表的人类创造力。

原文

5 years ago I started a now completely stalled project (fingers crossed I can figure out how to restart soon) to draw all of Hokusai’s 36 views of Mount Fuji as 1-bit pixel art.

Why?

I started this project for no other reason than I love to get into the ‘flow state’ from this kind of creative endeavour, and obviously I love to use old Macintosh computers.

It feels very satisfying to get each pixel to fall into place, capturing both the original vision of Hokusai and the aesthetic that Susan Kare mastered early on with ‘the Japanese lady’.

Kare’s picture of course starred on the cover of every box of MacPaint and you can still buy beautiful prints of it today, directly from her.

Another challenging aspect of this project is to make sure the images are the original Macintosh screen resolution of 512 x 342 pixels. Why do I do this to myself?! Well, it just felt ‘right’ and I guess I’m a glutton for punishment when I want to make things feel authentic.

How?

The idea is to recreate every one of Hokusai’s woodcut prints from the series on an early black and white Macintosh, using contemporary hardware and software.

I usually use either my Quadra 700 or PowerBook 100, mostly because those are my reliable and easy to access computers (that run System 7, my favourite and most familiar OS of that era).

Software-wise I use Aldus SuperPaint 3.0, which is what my family had when I was a kid. Yes, I’d say that all of this is 99% nostalgia-driven…

Anyway, @polyducks urged me to share at least the first of these (although this was actually the 2nd or 3rd of the series I tackled, not sure why I did them ‘out of order’), “The Great Wave off Kanagawa”. Took me a while to get around to it, but here it is:

01 of 36 views of Mt. Fuji by hypertalking

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Please, if you reproduce this or post it anywhere be sure to credit me and link back to this website!

Bonus!

As a little extra, if you have a Macintosh with a 640 x 480 screen, you can download a version (PNG | PICT as compressed .zip) to use as a desktop pattern.

I’ll aim to post more from this project soon.