Show HN: A Collaborative Art Canvas (experimental)

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.

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...

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.

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.

I was playing around with a script that draws on webcanvas.com

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.

Started to make a maze, seemed like many people joined in.