SUPERMEGAEXPERIMENTSCGA 1976

12 · HARMONIC STORYJEAN-CLAUDE MARQUETTE

INTERPRETED STUDY

Encode normalized text with a declared modern fixed-width codebook, wrap bits row-major, then crop and layer the matrix.

Jean-Claude Marquette · 1974

MODERN SIX-BIT · 44 ROWS × 36 COLUMNS

Jean-Claude Marquette / Harmonic Story / 1974 / Computer Graphics and Art, May 1976 p. 26

Harmonic Story

Documented mechanism: Marquette converted letters into fixed-width binary groups, printed six-, seven-, and eight-bit listings, and translated selected windows into visual works.
Interpretation: The historical codebook, bit order, punctuation rules, and final composition are unknown. This tool names its modern codebooks and uses a 44-line by 36-column source matrix.
Supermega: Seeded crop-layer composition, colored offsets, broad framing bands, inversion, URL replay, and fixed PNG export.

Presets

Study

Text and codebook

Original or user-entered text—2,048 characters maximum

These are declared modern codebooks: a Supermega 64-character table, 7-bit ASCII, and Latin-1. They are not Marquette's recovered historical table.

Codebook

Bit order

Invert bits

Matrix

Columns

Rows / lines

Crop window

Crop X

Crop Y

Crop width

Crop height

Composition

Layers

Offset X

Offset Y

Framing bands

Module gap

0.04

Palette

Composition seed

Artifact

Output

1600×1000

Load Configuration

Serialized configuration JSON

MatrixREADY

Full provenance and source linksMay 1976

Artist: Jean-Claude Marquette
Work: Harmonic Story and Detail from Tapestry
Date: 1974
Issue: Computer Graphics and Art, May 1976 p. 26.

Marquette process account Centre Pompidou IBM/partition record Six-bit listing record