The lifesize work by the artist and sculptor Michael Myers is a celebration of a televised game in 1983 between two World Champions, Cliff Thorburn and Terry Griffiths.
The Perfect Game painting details the precise geometry of how Thorburn made the first televised maximum break of 147 and will be unveiled at a ceremony in Sheffield on Wednesday.
Michael created the artwork after being inspired by a Jackson Pollock exhibition many years ago in New York.
He said: "I was mesmerised by the buzz of his paintings and wanted to produce something that would create that same kind of visual excitement, but in my own way."
Michael began the painting in his studio in Toronto and first produced a full scale design on paper.
Back in London, he refined the techniques for painting the lines and balls for each move on practice canvases before committing them to the finished painting.
"This is easily the most stressful thing I have ever done because the precision of the perfect game leaves no margin for error.
"I worked from a fuzzy DVD of the game and made hundreds of stills of it on my computer. I then overlaid a hand drawn grid on each still that corresponded to a grid on the canvas, and so was able to accurately plot the position of each ball during and after every shot, taking into account the camera angle.
"This game was played before they had overhead cameras, which would have made the game a great deal easier to translate into a painting.
"My version of it is a sort of map of the game in which every shot of every ball is charted from beginning to end, from the first red to the last black, in one image.
"As far as I know no-one has ever done this before. The positions of the balls are numbered in sequence, and the trajectory lines have direction arrows on them, so it is possible by looking at the painting to follow the frame as it unfolds."
The 7ft by 13ft painting will be installed at the Macdonald St Paul's Hotel and will be on exhibition there throughout the World Snooker Championship at the Crucible Theatre.
Cliff Thorburn will fly in from Canada to unveil the painting - and it will be the first time that he has seen it.
It's the first in a series of six paintings, with the next almost certain to be the famous final frame between Steve Davis and Dennis Taylor in the 1985 World Championship.