SUPERMEGAEXPERIMENTSCGA 1976

11 · TEXT IMAGE MATRIXKENNETH KNOWLTON

CREDITED STUDY

Repeat a fixed-column text field, then let glyph tone resolve a procedural or private local image.

Kenneth Knowlton · 1971

PROCEDURAL SOURCE · CONFIG PORTABLE

Kenneth Knowlton / Universal Declaration of Human Rights / 1971 / Computer Graphics and Art, May 1976 p. 13

Text Image Matrix

Documented mechanism: Knowlton's 1971 work repeats human-rights text on black while local glyph tone resolves a photographic image.
Interpretation: Fixed-column wrapping, procedural source, crop model, threshold, and exact type treatment are reconstructed. No source photograph or recovered program ships.
Supermega: Private local PNG/JPEG/WebP input, contemporary palettes, bounded validation, replayable controls, and fixed PNG export.

Presets

Study

Private local source

Static PNG, JPEG, or WebP only—20 MB and 20 megapixels maximum. Source bytes and file identity stay in this frame and are never copied into configuration or URL state.

Text field

Text corpus—2,048 characters maximum

Columns

Rows

Glyph scale

0.90

Source and crop

Default source

Crop X

0.50

Crop Y

0.50

Crop zoom

1.00

Tone

Contrast

1.35

Threshold

0.48

Gamma

1.00

Palette

Invert tone

Artifact

Output

1600×1000

Direct export may use the current local image. Copied configuration never contains that image, and embedded export needs a fresh in-frame confirmation.

Load Configuration

Serialized configuration JSON

SourcePROCEDURAL READY

Full provenance and source linksMay 1976

Artist: Kenneth Knowlton
Work: Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Date: 1971
Issue: Computer Graphics and Art, May 1976 p. 13.

ZKM Knowlton record Bell Labs first-hand history Official UN declaration