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'…
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It's possible to set any color by doing something like: firebaseCanvasData.child(row+':'+col).set(color)
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#12I wonder if it can be used to do a stochastic Conway's game of life. Perhaps a large enough grid will approximate it :-p
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#13Started to make a maze, seemed like many people joined in.
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#14Started 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.
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#15A 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.
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#16Here 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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#17Here 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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#18Well 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?
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#19One 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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#20I was playing around with a script that draws on webcanvas.com