Canvas in 30 days 👀 ( canvas.fediverse.events )

cross-posted from: https://toast.ooo/post/3740832

turns out I did my math wrong, so it’s a little less than 30 days

July 12th, 2024 @ midnight EDT

https://canvas.fediverse.events

✨ this year’s event also supports the entire fediverse not just Lemmy!

(you have to be able to make/receive text posts, like mastodon, lemmy, pixelfed, etc)
(peertube accounts will not work)

you can get update announcements on other fedi platforms with @canvas@fediverse.events link

chat about Canvas on Matrix or Discord (they’re bridged)

petrescatraian ,
@petrescatraian@libranet.de avatar

@kersploosh For everyone who is on or other Fediverse platforms that support event subscription I created this event:

libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-1…

If you cannot access your link, just paste it in your search bar, and it should find it (I made sure it is a public event).

Let me know if you have issues.

BlueEther ,
@BlueEther@no.lastname.nz avatar

For such a small community[s] *.nz did well last year, looking forward to the coming event.

@grant can you put the time in gmt / utc for the rest of the world?

https://no.lastname.nz/pictrs/image/34d4d261-738c-4fe1-b129-b2e75390dcff.png

grant ,

for some reason this post didn't get federated to toast, weird

July 12th, 2024 @ 4am UTC (the countdown is also on the website -- https://canvas.fediverse.events)

umbrella ,
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can't wait for us to paint some linux logos and communist symbols

kersploosh OP ,
@kersploosh@sh.itjust.works avatar

I'm expecting ponies. So many ponies.

carbon_based ,
@carbon_based@sh.itjust.works avatar

that's all so 2-D ...

lemming ,

So... What is it exactly?

threelonmusketeers ,

Did you ever participate in r/place?

It's pretty much the same thing. Each user can place a pixel every few minutes, and over a few days, an artwork appears.

This was the 2023 result:

https://cdn.sc07.company/canvas/2023/finished.png

lemming ,

Thank you! It looks like it needs more people for more excitement, but on the other hand, one-man projects look possible. Should be fun :-)

threelonmusketeers ,

Last year's canvas was 1000x1000, but this year's is only 500x500. The influx of users from the Rexxit a year ago has died down a bit, but I feel like the remaining users are more active. It will be interesting to see how this year goes.

lemming ,

Oh, that sounds reasonable.

carbon_based ,
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It came to me today that I should play the devil's advocate. Everyone who comments seems to like this, therefore there has to be someone to take the job of un-hypeing it. So this is just a different POV ... because I can.

It's a kind of social experiment which could be fun for some. The idea is to try to make a drawing with very limited resources (a single pixel per message, perhaps a few hundred pixels over a couple of days), and concurrently with hundreds/thousands of participants.

The outcome is less an artwork than it is a work of art that shows the (dire) state of collective creativity and imaginative capabilities of people who have been "rised" in dominance-hierarchic, competition-centric, societies: imagine one of these squatted houses where the walls quickly get filled with tags and political messages. While they in theory could have collectively put on an artwork that really speaks, they'd rather endulge in "us vs. them" group think, competing for the space and overdrawing each others messages.
-- Thus, in a "canvas" action, those who can captivate the minds of the masses, and those who have the proficiency to have armies of machines fight for them, will win the most space. People will say this is fun but it's rather the same as in politics. The outcome is perhaps pretty or hilarious in some details but it's mostly logos and flags and symbolism, flat colours and two-dimensional cartoon caracters. So rather boring; rarely one will see a detail where one would say, "wow, someone really did put some thought and skill into this".

Regarding me, I could imagine taking part in a project to create a bot that would facilitate collective decision making (about division of labour among drawing project participants and on-the-fly decisions about how to interact with neighbouring bits -- stop at boundary, colour-mix, or overdraw -- and drawing of colour-dithered, possibly three-dimensional, pre-planned graphic design (or algorithmic graphics), while at the same time automating the tedious sending of draw commands from many locations (it's the most inefficient way one could do it but who cares in times of HD video streaming).
... Another fun idea that just pops into my mind, would be programming a "game of life" automaton which respects pixels that are already occupied, or overdraws them then re-draws them in their original colour. It could be made to completely vanish until closure time. :-D

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