Show HN: A Collaborative Art Canvas (experimental)

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Post by paramaggarwal » Thu, Oct 03, 2013, 3:20 AM UTC

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

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Post by pirer » Thu, Oct 03, 2013, 3:54 AM UTC

Quite interesting how, with something that looks so simple as a concept potentiates when technology is involved in the right amount.

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

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Post by timestretch » Thu, Oct 03, 2013, 4:12 AM UTC

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.

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

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Post by timestretch » Thu, Oct 03, 2013, 4:15 AM UTC

One thing that would be fun is a way to toggle between a few shades of gray.

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

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Post by angle_king » Thu, Oct 03, 2013, 4:23 AM UTC

And there's also one paint-chat program here: http://mrspaint.com

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

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Post by paramaggarwal » Thu, Oct 03, 2013, 4:32 AM UTC

timestretch wrote: post #4

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!

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

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Post by achal » Thu, Oct 03, 2013, 4:36 AM UTC

paramaggarwal wrote: post #6

timestretch wrote: post #4

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!

Thanks, the fact that it was so simple to make it do random things is great. Very fun.

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

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Post by timestretch » Thu, Oct 03, 2013, 4:40 AM UTC

paramaggarwal wrote: post #6

timestretch wrote: post #4

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!

Cool! For me, reducing the pixelSpacing to 0 really helped make it more artistic.

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

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Post by paramaggarwal » Thu, Oct 03, 2013, 4:48 AM UTC

timestretch wrote: post #8

paramaggarwal wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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!

Cool! For me, reducing the pixelSpacing to 0 really helped make it more artistic.

Awesome! pixelSpacing is now 0 for all. Thanks!

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

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Post by kaflurbaleen » Thu, Oct 03, 2013, 5:32 AM UTC

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'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.