Sick of the (admittedly tweaked) clarity of the Andromeda Galaxy, Lion’s default wallpaper? Why not download this 8-bit pixel art recreation of the same in glorious 2560 x 1600.
Snow Leopard loyalist? There’s a version for you too.
[via OS X Daily]
By John Brownlee •
Sick of the (admittedly tweaked) clarity of the Andromeda Galaxy, Lion’s default wallpaper? Why not download this 8-bit pixel art recreation of the same in glorious 2560 x 1600.
Snow Leopard loyalist? There’s a version for you too.
[via OS X Daily]
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
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10 responses to “Recreate The Andromeda Galaxy In 8-Bit Pixel Art On Your Lion Desktop!”
Why not just open the original in Preview, resize it to 26×16 pixels, save it as a different file, then set that as your desktop?
Well that’s rather ugly.
Makes my eyes hurt @@
wtf???
except they got most of the galaxy wrong… (an astrophysicist) http://goo.gl/xDKLK