Crowdsourced Art



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This project lets anyone contribute to a piece of digital art. You can exchange tokens for pixels which you can draw on the canvas to the right. Some people received tokens from me, but anyone can get a token by mining it, just like you would go look for gold or bitcoins.

You can read about this project here. I ran a small iteration of this with my friends in 2009, and this is what they came up with:



If you have a token, type it here to begin:  

Otherwise, press this button:
Your computer will start mining tokens (be patient, it takes time!).


Pick colors from the picker to the right and click on the canvas to add pixels. Once you are satisfied with your work, you can submit the pixels you added.

 

To split your token into two smaller tokens, click here: 

To merge your token with another one, click here: 

 

You can split your token into two, but note that smaller tokens give you fewer pixels in total.

Split your pixels into

You can combine two tokens into one (and get bonus pixels)

Merge your token ( pixels) with