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cubefoxyesterday at 2:36 PM2 repliesview on HN

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


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grvbckyesterday at 11:54 PM

> 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

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dietricheppyesterday at 4:07 PM

I also run some accounts on BlueSky and Twitter that focus on 1-bit art:

https://bsky.app/profile/1bitdreams.bsky.social

https://x.com/1BitDreams

I see maybe 10 or 15 new pieces of 1-bit art posted on those platforms each week. A couple recent ones:

https://bsky.app/profile/ncesium.bsky.social/post/3miwkrqev5...

https://bsky.app/profile/oddbones.bsky.social/post/3mi7pedpn...