V - the Hierophant #tarot #pixelart #retrospecs
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An abstract Christmas tree made from a limited graphical character set. The tree is primarily in black against a bright red background, with some bright characters at the edge, where the lights would usually be.
Jingles and all that shit.
Created in #Retrospecs for #iOS - 8bitartwork.co.uk
#ios #pixelart #8bitart #pixelated #8bit #retro #vintage
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A deserted street scene with two rows of buildings disappearing into distance. The image is rendered in low resolution in the IBM EGA sixteen colour palette, with obvious pixels and dithering visible.
Where the streets have limited resolution
(IBM EGA, Bayer 4x4 dithering.)
Created in #Retrospecs for #iOS - 8bitartwork.co.uk
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A still from the film Frankenstein’s Island, showing a man wearing a beanie and oversized 70’s sunglasses wiping the side of two machines with prominent dials. It’s rendered in black and white, at it would appear on the original Apple Macintosh.
The machine must be maintained at all times
(Apple Macintosh, Atkinson dithering.)
Created in #Retrospecs for #iOS - 8bitartwork.co.uk
#retrospecs #ios #pixelart #8bitart #8bitartwork #macintosh
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A Salt and Pepper (Black & white) Mini Schnauzer pup sitting on a patch of grass, staring at the camera. It’s rendered as it would appear on the PICO-8 virtual console, and hence is low resolution, and heavily dithered.
Who dis?
(PICO-8 (Secret palette), Bayer 8x8 dithering.)
Created in #Retrospecs for #iOS - 8bitartwork.co.uk
#retrospecs #ios #pixelart #8bitart #8bitartwork #puppy #minischnauzer
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An abstract image consisting of light and dark green areas of checkerboards horizontal lines of varying density. The image is low resolution and heavily pixelated.
Hatched
(Custom per-pixel emulation using Nintendo Gameboy (Daylight) palette. 60x240, 4∶1 pixel ratio.)
Created in #Retrospecs for #iOS - 8bitartwork.co.uk
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Wanda, a 36 year old nonbinary person, sits on their couch in the hand-embroidered jeans vest that they purchased from Morgan’s Pillows and Patchwork when they were at the Vancouver FanExpo 2025. The photo is rendered as if it was displayed on the screen of a first-Gen GameBoy handheld gaming console (circa. 1989).
Just found the coolest app: render photos as if displayed on old-school systems😍 8bitartwork.co.uk #8bitartwork #Retrospecs #retro #gameboy
System: Nintendo Game Boy
Mode: 160x144, 4 colours
Dither: Floyd-Steinberg
Blend mode: Normal (Conversion)
Blend alpha: 70%
Vest: Morgan’s Pillows + Patchwork
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An abstract image consisting of light and dark red areas of what appears to be a folded piece of material. The image is low resolution and heavily pixelated, with very obvious signs of dithering.
Embrace
(Custom per-pixel emulation using Desert palette. 136x128, Bayer 8x8 dithering.)
Created in #Retrospecs for #iOS - https://8bitartwork.co.uk
#retrospecs #ios #pixelart #8bitart #8bitartwork #abstract #dithering
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Experimenting with Retrospecs once more. Forgot how wonderfully chunky the dithering models are in it. #secondlife #retrospecs
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An image of a skull, rendered in pixel art in an off-white colour against a dark background. Sections of the image are missing or appear to be corrupted.
Experiencing further degradation
Hope you’re all surviving out there. 🫡
(Custom per-pixel emulation using custom palette. 320x240)
Created in #Retrospecs for #iOS - https://8bitartwork.co.uk
#retrospecs #ios #pixelart #8bitart #8bitartwork
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picture a day: feb 15 cjs-wunderkammer.gho...
#photography #blog #cats #Caturday #Retrospecs #iPhone #iOS
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An abstract image composed of letters from a custom character pixel font consisting of various low-resolution geometric shapes and checkerboards. The overall impression is of a mass of yellow and black mechanical parts sitting on the left-hand side of the foreground against the backdrop of a clear, teal coloured sky.
Monkey, puzzled
(Custom character emulation using Circlex character set and Nintendo Gameboy Color T1 Reverse palette. 256x192.)
Created in #Retrospecs for #iOS - https://8bitartwork.co.uk
#pixelart #8bitart #8bitartwork #abstract #abstractart
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Picture of a long haired man as processed by an emulator — the face and head composed of characters green on black field
Portrait of a Man who knew the Jig was long up. #selfie #retrospecs #graphicart #marksunshineartist
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A decorated Christmas tree, with presents around the base, presented in chunky low-resolution, with very large, obvious pixels.
Tree ‘n shit. Innit.
Created in #Retrospecs for #iOS - https://8bitartwork.co.uk
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A semi-abstract blocky image of Henry Winkler as “Fonzie” from Happy Days, rendered using a character set that consists of checkerboard patterns of varying sizes in bright, over-saturated colours.
Fonzie-Bot requires your input
(Custom character emulsion using 12-bit palette. 128x480, 4∶1 pixel ratio.)
Created in #Retrospecs for #iOS - 8bitartwork.co.uk
#pixel #pixels #pixelart #8bit #8bitart #computerart #digitalart #designart #art #graphics
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An abstract image consisting of a mix of red vertical stripes and yellow checkboxes on a black background, the image becoming less dense towards the bottom.
Churn
(Custom character emulation using custom palette. 240x720, 4∶1 pixel ratio, Bayer 8x8 dithering.)
Created in #Retrospecs for #iOS - 8bitartwork.co.uk
#pixel #pixels #pixelart #8bit #8bitart #computerart #digitalart #designart #art #graphics
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An image of a daisy, composed of standard text characters from the MSX computers from the 1980s. The image is primary bright white on a bright yellow background, with the centre of the Daisy using darker, golden colours.
Sunscream
(Custom character emulation using MSX character set and Bubblegum16 palette. 320x320, Bayer 8x8 dithering.)
Created in #Retrospecs for #iOS - 8bitartwork.co.uk
#8bit #8bitart #pixelart #pixel #computerart #digitalart #art #graphics
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An abstract character image consisting of a large number of characters over a bright blur of rainbow colours. Most of the characters are the hash/pound symbol.
A pixel art conversion of an image from the excellent The Mitchells vs the Machines animated movie where the dog is sticking its head out of a car window.
An abstract character based image in bright 3-bit RGB primary colours. The overall effect is of a smear of colour.
A conversation of the original Doom title screen into a custom character set and palette. The “characters” consist of chunky squares and diagonals in varying sizes. (You can sort-of recognise that it’s Doom, if you know Doom.)
Some recent custom conversions. (Yes, I’m still a sucker for the character engine.) 😀
Generated in #Retrospecs for #iOS - 8bitartwork.co.uk
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An image of Bruce Campbell from The Evil Dead 2, as it would appear on a Sinclair ZX Spectrum microcomputer from the 1980s. The image is rendered in bright, primary colours with clearly visible dithering and consists of a close-up of a screaming face.
If you go down to the woods today…
(ZX Spectrum (Bright only). Bayer 8x8 dithering.)
Created in #Retrospecs for #iOS - 8bitartwork.co.uk.)
#retrospecs #ios #pixelart #8bitart #8bitartwork #zxspectrum #theevildead #brucecampbell
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A picture of Noel Edmunds wearing mirrored shades, rendered in as it would appear on a BBC Microcomputer from the 1980s.
Stallone : COBRA
(If I’m in a @chinnyvision.bsky.social list, I feel like I should lean into it.) 🫡
Created in #Retrospecs for #iOS - 8bitartwork.co.uk.)
#pixelart #8bitart
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A low-resolution, heavily dithered image of a cup of tea, consisting of clearly visible, chunky double-width pixels. The cup is shown in 3/4 top-down view and is sitting on a grey background. It’s contains tea.
Time for tea time time
(Custom per-pixel emulation using Afternoon palette. 80x160, 2∶1 pixel ratio, Bayer 8x8 dithering.)
Created in #Retrospecs for #iOS - 8bitartwork.co.uk.)
#retrospecs #ios #pixelart #8bitart #8bitartwork
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An abstract low-resolution image in bright primary colours, consisting of a mix of large yellow, red, green and white blobs on a black background, with heavy dithering evident in the areas where the blobs intersect.
Approaching Blobulon-4
(ZX Spectrum (Dim only), Bayer 2x2 dithering.)
Created in #Retrospecs for #iOS - 8bitartwork.co.uk
#retrospecs #ios #pixelart #8bitart #8bitartwork #zxspectrum #speccy #sinclair
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A heavily dithered black & white image of a blurry security camera frame, showing a manic faced milk-carton shaped figurine with some desk knick-knacks in the background.
Unresolved case
(Apple Macintosh, Atkinson dithering.)
Created in #Retrospecs for #iOS - 8bitartwork.co.uk
#retrospecs #ios #pixelart #8bitart #8bitartwork #macintosh #atkinson
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A pac-man style ghost rendered from text characters in a limited colour palette.
All spooky and shit.
(Custom character emulation using Diet PETSCII character set and Arne ZXArne, palette. 320x360)
Created in #Retrospecs for #iOS - 8bitartwork.co.uk
#pixel #pixels #pixelart #8bit #8bitart #computerart #digitalart #designart #art #graphics #halloween #ghost
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Deeper still
(Custom character emulation using Sabine character set. 320x240)
Created in #Retrospecs for #iOS - 8bitartwork.co.uk
Original animation by www.instagram.com/pachon.in.mo...
#pixel #pixels #pixelart #8bit #8bitart #computerart #digitalart #designart #art #graphics
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The frontage of a building with a protruding balcony in sunlight. Light is shining in the front of the balcony and through a side window onto the adjacent wall. Rendered in a limited colour palette (yellow, red, black and white) with significant visible dithering.
Lines and shadows
(BBC (Mode 1) Bayer 8x8 dithering.)
Created in #Retrospecs for #iOS - 8bitartwork.co.uk
#pixel #pixels #pixelart #8bit #8bitart #computerart #digitalart #designart #art #graphics
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A blocky, distorted rendition of a screen grab from the Id Software classic “Wolfenstein 3D”.
Wolf and steam
(Custom attribute emulation using Twilioquest 76 palette. 320x200)
Created in #Retrospecs for #iOS - 8bitartwork.co.uk
#pixel #pixels #pixelart #8bit #8bitart #computerart #digitalart #designart #art #graphics #wolfenstein3d
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An image composed of text characters in a limited colour palette of a blue, purple and red/orange. Whilst somewhat abstract, the image just discernible as being from the classic “Half-Life” PC game, with the protagonist wielding a crowbar as two mutilated scientists approach.
They're waiting for you, Gordon
(Custom character emulation using Diet PETSCII character set and Bubblegum16 palette. 640x480)
Created in #Retrospecs for #iOS - 8bitartwork.co.uk
#pixel #pixels #pixelart #8bit #8bitart #computerart #digitalart #designart #art #graphics #half-life
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A semi-abstract image composed of graphical checkerboard text characters in a wide variety of colours. Whilst very blocky and somewhat abstract, the image just discernible as being gameplay from the first level of the classic “Doom” PC game.
Knee deep
(Custom character emulation using 12-bit palette, 128x480, 4∶1 pixel ratio.)
Created in #Retrospecs for #iOS - 8bitartwork.co.uk
#pixel #pixels #pixelart #8bit #8bitart #computerart #digitalart #designart #art #graphics #doom
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An image composed of characters from the Commodore PET microcomputer from the 1970s. Whilst very blocky and somewhat abstract, the image is of a milk-carton with eyes, arms and a large smiling mouth.
Two for the price of three
(Custom character emulation using PET character set and Dawnbringer 16 palette. 200x320, 2∶1 pixel ratio.)
Created in #Retrospecs for #iOS - 8bitartwork.co.uk
#pixel #pixels #pixelart #8bit #8bitart #computerart #digitalart #designart #art #graphics
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