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
  • BluePower@sh.itjust.works
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    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
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      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.

  • Che Banana@beehaw.org
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    4 months ago

    And here i was thinking there wasn’t an active Sounders instance here! Thanks for the work put in, the whole thing is neat!

  • AVincentInSpace@pawb.socialEnglish
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    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.

  • Ms. Falcon@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    4 months ago

    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

  • GlennMagusHarvey@mander.xyz
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    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!

  • macniel@feddit.orgEnglish
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    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!

  • Lvxferre@mander.xyz
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    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.

      • Lvxferre@mander.xyz
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        4 months ago

        Many weebs have sleepless nights over their waifu’s 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.)

  • Hubi@feddit.orgEnglish
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    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
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      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
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        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
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      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!!

  • TriLinder@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Thank you so much for running this amazing event and dealing with the difficulties along the way. Happy birthday! 🎉