But as Kirsch told an oral historian for the National Museum of American History in 1970, he was among a "fortunate happy few" who also had access to the computer for their own private "speculative" experiments, such as artificial intelligence and image processing.
If he had learned, he would have borrowed techniques from the Ravenna mosaicists, instead of using square pixels. And if later computer scientists had learned from Kirsch's mistake, they would not have perpetuated an inferior imaging technique.