[2024] Thank you for participating!!
[2024] Thank you for participating!!
the event has concluded! thank you all for participating!
this has been incredibly fun to run, as it was last year (although there was a bit more hiccups this time around)
β Crossposters: link back to this post as it will be updated with more information β
Event date: July 12th, 2024 @ 4am UTC til July 15th @ 4am UTC (72 hours) July 16th @ 4am UTC (72 hours + 24 hours) (it was extended due to a massive performance issue that caused major downtime)
Future events
I'm planning to host another one next year, so stay tuned π
If you have suggestions for canvas 2025 or any other events, post them in this post (thanks Ategon)
Supporting the project πππ
I have spent a little over 6 months completely rebuilding Canvas from the ground up to support future features, and i would love to work on more fediverse events
poster sales
posters of the final canvas will be sold, if you would like to stay updated with information on those, follow the Mastodon account or send an email to [email protected] π
the shop site will also include stickers for the following instances:
- mastodon.world
- lemmy.world
- blahaj.zone
- toot.community
- toast.ooo
- Canvas 2024
β¨ I wanted to have the shop setup before the event ending, but i couldn't get it setup quick enough unfortunately
EDIT: Shop is now live!
direct donations
Donating via Stripe is the best way to donate directly
contributing to the code
canvas is open-source and is on a self-hosted gitlab instance at https://git.sc07.company/sc07/canvas
at time of writing; the gitlab server randomly restarts due to resource limits
Timelapses
i need to rewrite the timelapse script as some people pointed out some weirdness with the other ones (that's also what delayed this post by almost 3 hours)
Data
Database dump: (48mb) https://cdn.sc07.company/canvas/2024/canvas-stripped.sql.txt
Contains pixel placements, canvas moderation actions, and palette colors no IP addresses
chat.fediverse.events
This will stay up as long as i can keep it running for, i'll make some improvements eventually as well
tools (like a canvas atlas)
if anyone is wanting to build something for canvas, i'd be willing to host the project & give it a subdomain of .fediverse.events
just send me a matrix dm, a dm on discord (grahhnt) or an email [email protected]
Special thanks
thank you to the moderators that helped me this year, even with how stressful it was π¨
- Ategon (https://ategon.dev/)
- Sugar (sc07)
- Bigcheese
- TheWaffleLord
and the contributors to the code once the event started: π»
- Ategon
- Marius
- soda_cans
and thank you, once again, for participating this year, i hope you enjoyed it as much as i did π
i'm going to now go enjoy my 21st π₯³π
- grant
Thank you to everyone who was involved in the creation of this, it was a lot of fun and I can't wait for the next one. It's crazy how much nicer it was compared to the one from that other site. I placed a little doodle on the first day not expecting it to survive the night because it was in the path of another large piece. But when I checked the next day, someone had actually moved it to the side. That never would've happened on r/place.
It was similar for me! I was bored and put an UwU down on the canvas at the beginning of the event and it survived almost until the end! People kept repairing it too and put the rainbow road below without destroying it. In the end the space got repurposed for a cute pony which is for the best x3
I'm very surprised how long it lasted though! This community is so nice!Yeah, we added it to our template when we moved Trixie over. Towards the end of the event it was the only place we could find to put Ocellus.
Oh were you the person that made the little head above the nato flag?
No, but apparently this happened more than once lol
Same with me. I put a little heart in the middle left corner, and then went away on a trip. I was completely shocked to see it was still there for the final image. And love that it was worked into the Android logo. Thanks to all!!
This will forever be recorded as one of the most exciting events to participate in for my whole life. I've never been this happy and excited before. It is fun and intriguing just to be able to explore and draw a bunch of pixels into a public canvas just like grabbing squares (pixels) and putting it into a giant block of land (the canvas) to draw art with.
Great job! π
In addition, I'm quoting from what I wrote in the News & Updates section of my generator hub page:
But, in the end, I was able to put all of them together, a piece of history of my entire generator-making journey, into a part of a large collaborative canvas event! It was also really fun and I was able to interact with people from across the entire Fediverse, and it was also the very first time I experienced such things like that.
THIS is how I find out there was a canvas event... :(
Lots of people found about it this way last year as well.
I did find out a couple of days earlier, but for the love of God, I couldn't make any sense out of what was happening. What is a canvas? How do people contribute to it? Why? For what reason? What's its goal? What does it mean?
It's a fediverse wide collaborative art project!. You follow the link, log in with your fediverse account (you provide your username, they dm you a code, you use that to login) and then you can start placing pixels to create your art. The purpose in my opinion is two fold: one, making art is fun in and of itself! And two: it's fun to participate in a community event. The whole thing is practically an exercise in decorum and human nature, and will others graffiti your art piece or cover it up, or add to it?
I added three sprites. A buzzy beetle from Paper Mario, a jujimo from Stardew Valley, and a triforce from Zelda. No one disturbed my pieces, and a stranger worked on my triforce with me, without ever having to speak about it. It was thrilling! Somewhere else in the world, a stranger worked on a little bit of sunshine along side me and with me. It's possible they don't even speak English!. Very cool!
It's r/place but on the fediverse!
Thank you so much for preparing and running an event like this, and happy birthday π₯³
Thank you, grant, and everyone who worked on this! I had fun.
I'd also like to thank the innumerable people who helped others out to complete their drawings - like The Dark Side of the Moon cover prism, or the Debian spiral.
I'm extra happy with how the Mander face and Megumin turned out.
And yes, Megumin's feet kept me awake a whole night.Many weebs have sleepless nights over their waifu's feet
Many weebs have sleepless nights over their waifuβs feet
True that.
(To be frank I never understood Megumin's appeal, but since people were posting anime stuff, I joined in. To each their own, I guess? Plus KonoSuba is fun.)
swirly
I think the most discussion and on canvas changes to megumin were over her feet.
IIRC the discussion was about redoing the second take of her feet for some depth.
Are you saying you were only 19~20 when you coded and deployed this? Holy shit, I have done web stuff before but I couldn't get myself to do that even if someone paid me.
That was a truly amazing and fun event, even with the occasional hiccup and downtime phase.
Thanks for hosting and happy Birthday!
Congratulations on an excellent event, and I look forward to next year's. The codebase should be more settled then and hopefully you'll manage to get a decent amount of sleep, unlike this time.
Also, happy birthday!
Oh hey, my poppy survived. And someone added a border. Neat.
I was genuinely shocked at how well this went, especially considering it's the first year. Reddit has done this three times now (four if you count the Adobe Create event) and this blew all of them out of the water.
This is the second year :)
Actually... https://toast.ooo/post/288913
i still have some pixels from day 1 on there!!
Glad My contributions made it into the final after all
Where?
It's been a great experience for me! Thank you all for not destroying my small doodle. Looking forward to next year!
Yay I managed to sneak a little waldo at the last moment, thanks to the people in the chat who helped me, I was placing pixels with my phone on my way home.
Also, awesome work everybody!
(edit to fix grammar)
Thank you so much to you for making this happen, thanks to the other contributors and mods for helping to keep things running, and to all the participants!
Waldo is hiding in there somewhere, btw.
Is the thumbnail version going to be the final official version? It's from hours before the end.
It was updated, but it seems Lemmy instances with pictrs enabled keep the original cache. You can still click on the link in the official LemmyUI though.
That's a good observation. The thumbnail is indeed updated and at a higher res at https://toast.ooo/post/4077161 compared to lemmy.world for example.
Thank you for organizing!
Huge thanks to grant for organising this huge event! This year's canvas was 100% better than 2023's.
It was amazing to see all the pretty things people came up with.
Thank you so much for running this amazing event and dealing with the difficulties along the way. Happy birthday! π
Nice board we made folks
Oh shit. Someone created the Taiwan flag! I thought I was the only Taiwanese person here.
Congrats Everyone and thank yooou! :3
Shoutout to whoever drew the cat butler from Omori.
Just finished that game and it left me fucked up but also...happy? Massive emotional whiplash.
Had a blast as well! First time doing something like this. Really happy how my pieces turned out.
Thanks so much for organizing this event!
In the last timelapse I saw that some pixels were missing during the blackout. We continued placing pixels on the canvas while we only had that white screen bug. So some pixels are missing which were blindly placed.
Yay, my pfp's at the top next to the center (the right edge before they added another canvas)!
Was a really fun event, great at building our community, thank you to all involved! Looking forward to the next one
So cool. Is there a way to find out which communities did what?
Neat
Thank a lot for hosting this event, it was very fun, i enjoyed drawing.
And happy birthday to you ! :D
Mmm, It's not completly the final canva, at the last minute i drew 2 horses ? π
Well that was fun. I'm also glad the mario 3 suits and the mega man made it to the end!
Aww damn, i just now discovered this and i missed it.. well, hope everyone else had fun during this event, this whole event seemed really cool! i love some of the art this was drawn on
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Soulism!
Why didn't you post a screenshot of the final state?
Does anybody have the final canvas as .svg file?
Maybe I'm out of the loop, but isn't the canvas pixels? That would prevent it from being a vector graphic. On the upside, you should be able to take a picture and scale it up with interpolation disabled to get a larger version suitable for print.
Yeah, my idea was wrong. I just looked it up and it seems PNG is the best file format for pixel art.
holy shit someone made scugrat