Composed of more than 11,000 four - inch
squares, or «
pixels,» in 72 colors, the window is based on Richter's 1974 painting, «4096 Colors,» a grid of monochromatic
squares 64 tall and 64 wide (for a
total of 4096
squares) which was organized and designed according to a mathematical formula that systematically mixed red, yellow, blue and gray.