09 · KAWANO MOSAICHIROSHI KAWANO

CREDITED STUDY

Fit a two-dimensional transition model to a categorical source, sample a new grid, then transform its same-state regions.

Hiroshi Kawano · 1969–70

FITTED MODEL · REVEALING

Hiroshi Kawano / Simulated Color Mosaic / 1969–70 / Computer Graphics and Art, May 1976 p. 12

Kawano Mosaic

Documented mechanism: Kawano analyzed data pictures into transition characteristics, then used a computer to generate new pictures. The issue shows raw grid output and a transformed result.
Interpretation: An order-two model uses left, left-two, above, and above-two contexts with smoothing and deterministic backoff. Exact historical tables are unavailable.
Supermega: Paintable training data, live transition diagnostics, linked views, contemporary palettes, replayable reveal, and fixed PNG export.

Presets

Study

Training data

Fixture

States

Cell indexPaint state

Generated field

Rows

Columns

Context

Scan

Horizontal

0.56

Vertical

0.44

Temperature

0.92

Smoothing

0.120

Look, seed, and playbackSix controls

View

Palette

Rounding

0.38

Reveal speed

Seed

Reveal

Artifact

Output

1600×1000

PNG export always renders the complete canonical grid, including while reveal playback is paused.

Load Configuration

Serialized configuration JSON

ModelREADY

Full provenance and source linksMay 1976

Artist: Hiroshi Kawano
Work: Simulated Color Mosaic
Date: 1969–70
Issue: Computer Graphics and Art, May 1976 p. 12.