Posted by stephen-hill 3 days ago
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.
One of the most joyful things I’ve seen on YouTube.
I'm not sure if he had multiple print runs from fresh carvings, or whether he only carved it once?
The art is also very good. Its hard to get that level of "colour" with limited resolution
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...
(As my layman understanding goes that is)
Monochrome CRTs are delicious to look at. A feast for the eyes. I love them. Compact Macs are often the cheapest way to get them, especially for their wonderful paper white phosphor, though I'm a sucker for amber phosphor.
https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/a-thg-primer,393-3.html
https://dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/1899550/1/11/
Have submitted as a post
Has search become really this bad !
Anyway wanted to show his sketch of a bird behind chicken wire fence/cage. Similar birds here
https://www.rawpixel.com/image/7660768/image-art-vintage-pub...
The art work that I had in my had a swallow or a sparrow swooping down, looked at through chicken wire grid.
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+...
In this case, the boats are fast (each has a bunch of crewmen) and were used to catch valuable fish. And the boats on the right have two people not at work (barely discernable in TFA's recreation). Those people were on break, getting ready to replace tired oarsmen. That way, the boat could be moving at all times.
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.
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).
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...
Each one of the remaining originals is subtly different due to the woodblock printing process, and must be stored for the majority of the time due to being susceptible to fading in light.