The scene in the top right turned out really good
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theres no button for it atm. you get auto logged out after awhile though. For disabling it while logged in theres the toggle in settings
theres a bunch of other stuff that has been appearing. those two went up quickest though but they aren't a majority of the canvas (there are animals by some other groups like the Germany ones above p.d but they aren't furries)
In addition to what grant said. Cursors dont show and arent sent when logged out or when on mobile and are anonymous so people can't tell whos cursor is who. Just a fun thing to add some activity to the canvas and make it feel more like a community instead of you placing pixels into a void
I can add it to gitlab to track it for next year
Theres a flag area in the d2jam design you could add it into (different flags are going into hearts). Im going to rearrange it a bit so the hearts might move position a bit in the template though
Yeah I don't think there's a specific board game one so both can happen in here. They play into each other a bit so I feel it makes sense
If things go bad theres a killswitch so that the entire feature can be disabled but have my fingers crossed everything works the first time. Did some testing but havent been able to simulate 300 actual users moving around
Random extra implemetation info.
When viewing the canvas you send the left right top bottom of your screen and zoom to the server. The server then sends back all cursors that are valid to be shown based on what you sent. On future times you ask the server it only sends back what changed (so a cursor that doesnt move doesnt get sent again and your local version knows its just still in its same position). That helps cut down more on bandwidth being sent around.
The map is split into various chunks of different sizes. When you send the position and zoom to the server it tries to fit you nicely into chunks and then the cursors it sends back are the cursors within those chunks. Then if somebody else asks for the cursors and they fit into the same chunks it sends back the same data to them due to it being cached for those chunks instead of computing it again which helps reduce server load.
theres some interpolation so you dont just teleport to the new position but yeah its still a bit choppy. Not much I can do else to smooth that out unless I want a bunch more bandwidth used and I think its decent enough
For people on PC its on by default when logged in and can be turned off with a toggle in the settings. When logged out or on mobile its off
Only the cursor is sent and there isnt a name shown currently unless you then place down a pixel and someone inspects that pixel to see who placed it
Theres various things that are part of the change so that its optimized. You can only see cursors of people in similar zoom levels for example as one of those. Exact cursor positions arent shared but people just see the cursor snapped to the pixel on the canvas its hovering over so that objects sent are smaller
Hello everyone! This is the post to determine the category of what to send for the Lemmyvision song content for Programming.Dev this year!
What is Lemmyvision?
For people who don't know what lemmyvision is, its a competition where communities on lemmy all submit a song to then be voted on by the participants. The aim is to promote different languages and cultures from around the world, to share more between our online communities across Lemmy, and discover songs from lesser known artists.
In lemmyvision 1 P.D sent a song from Casette Beasts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjeTwn9uA3Y
This Edition
For this edition I thought it would be fun to team up P.D with another community I help out with (that will soon be joining the fediverse as well!) D2Jam is a game jam run 2 times a year where people need to make games in 3 days. As part of that are composers that need to compose music for the games within the 3 days. We could submit an song from the jam as the entry for programming.dev to get more eyes on the composers there since some of them are really good but don't have much eyes on their work atm (and it would help people discover songs from lesser known artists that need the discovery).
Examples of some of the songs https://d2jam.com/m/tony-plantony, https://d2jam.com/m/reap-what-you-sow, https://d2jam.com/m/planty-of-us, https://d2jam.com/m/its-watering-time, https://d2jam.com/m/planted (these are not necessarily the ones that would be voted on for what to be sent, these are just some of them from the most recent edition)
I set up a poll where you can vote on whether to do this or just do a regular game soundtrack submission like it was done in lemmyvision 1 (note that it would be limited to only things released in 2025 and 2026 either way). Anyone can vote even if your account is not in P.D (since many people that use the communities have their accounts elsewhere)
Made a script real quick to generate images of what certain users & instances placed
Heres the pixels placed by each of the top 10 instances that placed the most pixels (that appear on the final canvas)
- lemmy.world (48122 pixels on final canvas, 145 users)
- feddit.org (19372 pixels on final canvas, 57 users)
- toast.ooo (18415 pixels, 34 users)
- lemmy.zip (13335 pixels, 20 users)
- pawb.social (12768 pixels, 7 users)
- sh.itjust.works (9739 pixels, 25 users)
- grants.cafe (7264 pixels, 7 users)
- mastodon.social (7129 pixels, 18 users)
- programming.dev (6205 pixels, 15 users)
- mas.to (5805 pixels, 5 users)
And heres for users
- https://toast.ooo/u/starpup (4608)
- https://lemmy.zip/u/rrconkle (3886)
- https://mas.to/users/Vaporek (2815)
- https://lemmy.world/u/Adopon (2448)
(Anyone who wants an image of certain users or instances you can let me know but the functionality for users will also be on https://canvasstats.com/ this week)
Its the last day of the !canvas@toast.ooo event with it ending 22 hours from when this post is made.
This is an event similar to to r/place where everyone can place a pixel on a canvas every so often. Everyone has access to the same canvas meaning you can work together to construct art and wars can happen for territory leading to needing to defend things that get constructed
Theres still some work that needs to be done for the programming.dev design so any help getting that up is appreciated. There's also still blank space around the canvas if anyone wants to add in their own designs.
Event link: https://canvas.fediverse.events/
The programming.dev design template: https://canvas.fediverse.events/#x=380&y=297&zoom=1&tu=https%3A%2F%2Fbytes.programming.dev%2Ffiles%2Ff2c5ff7d-e015-40be-851d-81ecf3c9e77c&tw=66&tx=403&ty=393&ts=DOTTED_SMALL (were near the bottom right)
Theres a timelapse of the event up to the current point at https://sc07.tv/w/sV6dtF1u1e3wMDB24k2fqZ
Happy pixel placing!
Canvas is happening in almost a day! This is an event similar to to r/place where everyone can place a pixel on a canvas every so often. Everyone has access to the same canvas meaning you can work together to construct art and wars can happen for territory leading to needing to defend things that get constructed
The event link is here: https://canvas.fediverse.events/
This is the third time the event is taking place. Theres an image in the post of what the p.d area looked like the second time it happened (were using a similar ish template this year with some differences so its different than last year)
The main locations for dicussing the event for programming.dev is this community, our discord and our matrix if you want to chat with other people participating
Theres a design that will be getting made for programming.dev in general but if any communities want to organize something feel free to plan out something nearby or elsewhere on the canvas. Any help getting the programming.dev design built will also be really appreciated since then we will be able to expand out the design and get more communities represented in the community icons
You can use this template to know where to place pixels for the programming.dev design when the event is happening
