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Pictures by Hive Mind

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the we-are-playboy-of-borg dept.

nofrance writes "A very interesting little experiment where multiple viewers get to select whether to set a single pixel to black or white, to help build a picture. All pictures can also be viewed as animations over time, often showing just how close the picture got to finished before returning to something closer to static."

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  1. People working together... by dada21 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ...what percentage of them are trolls?
    We once tried to use about 300 windows in a high rise to display a picture using lights. What a fias o getting people to follow directions.

    This is interesting as the image progresses quickly.

    The human scanner, 1 person per pixel.

  2. Re:pixelfest by Xzzy · · Score: 3, Interesting

    That is pretty cool. I did something of a similar bent a few years back, though with different goals. I wanted to see if people were capable of participating in an art project without being asshats.

    http://web.archive.org/web/20021011144257/http://t ru7h.org/society/

    Short version is, they couldn't. There were some cool things a few people did (that link is one example), but it was always done by one person and some scripts, rather than a group.

    Don't have it up anymore, the way I stored the data was pretty inefficient and was too expensive in terms of CPU time to keep available.

  3. urban dead by The+OPTiCIAN · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The guy who wrote this (kevan.org) has written lots of neat online games. My favourite is urban dead - urbandead.com. It's completely pathetic for the first five minutes and then utterly addictive. I recommend starting as a fireman :)

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    Believe with me, my saplings.
  4. Re:pixelfest by Sheepdot · · Score: 3, Interesting

    And it has a history. (Takes a while to load: in Flash)

  5. Hivemind Vector Drawing? Hivemind CAD? by sanman2 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    What if this Hivemind approach could be applied to drawing a vector image. Or even CAD, for building a house/car/spaceship? Suppose a webpage could feature a large vector-drawing canvas, sort of like a simplified version of Adobe Illustrate or the Macromedia Flash editor. Perhaps it could be built using AJAX. Start off with a blank canvas, and allow a visitor to lay down a single vectorized stroke. Then see what everyone's strokes all add up to. This 'wisdom of crowds' idea is pretty intriguing. Anyone have any links to other webpages based on this idea? Anyone have any ideas for what might make for a good webpage project based on this idea?

  6. letters is much cooler by mike6496 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    sorry.. but this is much cooler.. http://web.okaygo.co.uk/apps/letters/flashcom/
    (look in the lower left corner to see how many people are currently dragging letters around)