The scratch pad - collaborative online painting

Scratchpad

This is one of the ideas I was thinking of in the last few weeks. Expanding the natural ability of (digital) tools through onlinecollaboration. The scratchpad is a canvas, where people all around the globe can meet and draw on the same canvas. This really is fun, but unfortunatelly there is almost no communication. There are mostly people able to draw just besides people who can’t. They often imitate your drawings or just “paint all black”. I think this tool is a great study, but it would be interesting to do more research on the aspects on a) ensuring quality, b) open to everyone vs. closed systems and c) communication besides collaborators.
Thanks to Martin.

There are some excellent works showing more anonymous collaboration with others at the yugop-archive.
Thanks to Wenzel.