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)

⚠ Crossposters: link back to this post as it will be updated with more information ⚠

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 👀

If you have suggestions for canvas 2025 or any other events, post them in this post (thanks Ategon)

Supporting the project 💜💜💜

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 hello@sc07.company 💜

https://sc07.shop/

the shop site will also include stickers for the following instances:

  • mastodon.world
  • lemmy.world
  • blahaj.zone
  • toot.community
  • toast.ooo
  • Canvas 2024

✨ 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 hello@sc07.company

Special thanks

thank you to the moderators that helped me this year, even with how stressful it was 🔨

and the contributors to the code once the event started: 💻

  • Ategon
  • Marius
  • soda_cans

and thank you, once again, for participating this year, i hope you enjoyed it as much as i did 💜

i’m going to now go enjoy my 21st 🥳🎉

  • grant
  • Hubi@feddit.orgEnglish
    59·
    4 months ago

    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.

    • Ethanol@pawb.socialEnglish
      16·
      4 months ago

      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!

      • Bigcheese@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        4 months ago

        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.

    • FigMcLargeHuge@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      4 months ago

      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!!

  • BluePower@sh.itjust.works
    58·
    4 months ago

    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! 😃

    • BluePower@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      4 months ago

      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.

    • selokichtli
      21·
      4 months ago

      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?

      • ChexMax@lemmy.world
        6·
        4 months ago

        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!

        • selokichtli
          21·
          4 months ago

          Sounds fun and quite the social experiment! I’m glad you enjoyed it

  • 𒉀TheGuyTM3𒉁
    38·
    4 months ago

    Thank you so much for preparing and running an event like this, and happy birthday 🥳

  • Lvxferre@mander.xyz
    36·
    4 months ago

    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.

  • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.orgEnglish
    28·
    4 months ago

    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.

  • macniel@feddit.orgEnglish
    27·
    4 months ago

    That was a truly amazing and fun event, even with the occasional hiccup and downtime phase.

    Thanks for hosting and happy Birthday!

  • Deebster@programming.dev
    22·
    4 months ago

    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!

  • AVincentInSpace@pawb.socialEnglish
    16·
    4 months ago

    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.

  • RandomStickman@kbin.run
    14·
    4 months ago

    It’s been a great experience for me! Thank you all for not destroying my small doodle. Looking forward to next year!

  • GlennMagusHarvey@mander.xyz
    12·
    4 months ago

    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!

  • jpablo68@infosec.pubEnglish
    12·
    4 months ago

    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)