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Re: Show HN: A Collaborative Art Canvas (experimental)

#11

The real-time collaboration of this looks cool. I don't understand what the dinosaur (or now penis) has to do with it. I can't make those colors... where did those come from? 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'…

It's possible to set any color by doing something like: firebaseCanvasData.child(row+':'+col).set(color)

Re: Show HN: A Collaborative Art Canvas (experimental)

#14

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.

Re: Show HN: A Collaborative Art Canvas (experimental)

#19

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!

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Edit: Ok, definitely too many people abusing it...
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