Artist recreates Hokusai’s The Great Wave as 1-bit pixel art on vintage black-and-white Macintosh hardware

The author shares a nostalgia-driven project to redraw Hokusai’s 36 Views of Mount Fuji as 1-bit pixel art at the original Macintosh 512 x 342 screen resolution. The first shared work is The Great Wave off Kanagawa, created on vintage Macs using Aldus SuperPaint 3.0 and released under a Creative Commons license.

The project highlights a growing appreciation for constraints-based digital art, where older tools and limited displays become part of the creative identity. It also shows how retrocomputing culture continues to intersect with art preservation, remixing, and personal nostalgia.

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