Show HN: A Collaborative Art Canvas (experimental)(wefiddle.herokuapp.com)
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Show HN: A Collaborative Art Canvas (experimental)
http://wefiddle.herokuapp.com/
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It's possible to set any color by doing something like: firebaseCanvasData.child(row+':'+col).set(color)
Quite interesting how, with something that looks so simple as a concept potentiates when technology is involved in the right amount.
Here is an interesting experiment - create a "nice" looking rectangle of one solid color. See how long you can go before someone "maliciously" puts a red dot in the middle of your perfectly OCD constructed rectangle. Human nature + anonymity...
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A somewhat similar site: http://wecanv.as. Less experimental and artsy, but perhaps more useful.
I've been using unlisted (private) canvases as whiteboards during conference calls. Works quite nice.
I've been using unlisted (private) canvases as whiteboards during conference calls. Works quite nice.
If you enjoy this, check out www.fatbitsapp.com
It's an iOS app I made that lets you make pixel art and see artwork other people are making at the same time. There's also a little websockets powered view on the website of what people are making.
It's an iOS app I made that lets you make pixel art and see artwork other people are making at the same time. There's also a little websockets powered view on the website of what people are making.
I was playing around with a script that draws on webcanvas.com
http://webcanvas.com/#-8650,45871,0
http://webcanvas.com/#-8650,45871,0
Well it didn't take long, but it seems it's already been scripted to blast porn image in there. Would it perhaps be a good idea to have a per user pixel throttle?
And there's also one paint-chat program here: http://mrspaint.com
I wonder if it can be used to do a stochastic Conway's game of life. Perhaps a large enough grid will approximate it :-p
One thing that would be fun is a way to toggle between a few shades of gray.
I made it so that even the code is very hackable. Fiddle around in the source+console, and you can add your very own colors too!
I'm loving abusing this! The only problem is there are too many people trying their scripts at the same time, but it's really cool you left it completely hackable!
for (i=0;i<60;i++) { for (j=0;j<60;j++) { firebaseCanvasData.child(i+':'+j).set("rgb("+(255-i*2)+","+(255-j)+","+(i*j)+")") }}
Thanks, the fact that it was so simple to make it do random things is great. Very fun.
Cool! For me, reducing the pixelSpacing to 0 really helped make it more artistic.
Awesome! pixelSpacing is now 0 for all. Thanks!
Started to make a maze, seemed like many people joined in.
Yip, Right Bottom Corner, a guy even righted HN. This reminds me a lot of the first online Minecraft server, keeping in mind Minecraft was a lot more advance.
The only problem with a canvas like this is griefing.
The only problem with a canvas like this is griefing.
I made something called Sketch-a-bit (for Android) [http://sketchabit.adamsmith.as/] that's a charcoal-like sketching interface that has you start from someone else's drawing instead of a blank canvas. It's been alive for about 3 years and it's interesting to trace back the history of awesome sketches (http://sketchabit.adamsmith.as/master.php) and see how they evolved. Collaborative along the long-term dimension instead of all in parallel.