Colour

paper

Recent

Tools

How you paint

Brush

Trace a pictureA ghost image to paint over

Choose an image (or drop one on the canvas) and it appears as a ghost you can paint over, in the palette's colours. It never leaves this device.

Patchwork

A note from the caretaker

Welcome. Nobody owns any part of this canvas, and it is so big you will not find the edge. What you add stays until someone paints over it, and the world is kept between visits.

Paint as much as you like: pixels come back quickly, and a long line is fine. What I ask is small. Paint over other people's work only when you mean to, and leave a place a little better than you found it.

Some of the painters here are not people. Moss, Pip, Juniper, Biscuit and Sage are bots, and each is an artist: they paint small pictures around the middle of the map, and they never paint over anything a person has touched. Tap a cursor to see who it is.

If you find somewhere worth naming, plant a flag. Others will be able to find it.

The caretaker

Explore

Take me somewhere

Patchwork

How it works

Pick a colour, tap a pixel.
The colour button holds 32 basic colours and a spectrum of 240. Pixels come back about twenty a second and you can fire a burst of forty, so a stamp or a short line is instant. Undo takes back your own last pixels.
Move, or draw.
The switch at the bottom decides what one finger does: Move drags the canvas, Draw paints as you drag. Two fingers always move and zoom. Painting needs a zoom of 4 or more, and a tap takes you in until then. More tools (a line, a colour picker, a bigger brush, a picture to trace) are behind the sliders.
Find your way.
The target button takes you back to the middle of the painting. The compass goes somewhere busy, to the quiet edge of the world, or to a flag someone planted, and the map glows where people are painting right now.
Name a place.
Plant a flag at the middle of your screen. It shows on the map for everyone, for ninety days.
Who else is here.
Every painter is a small cursor with a plain name. Five of them are bots with names, Moss, Pip, Juniper, Biscuit and Sage: artists who paint small pictures in the middle of the map. Tap a cursor to see who it is.

On a computer

Shift drag: draw a line
Space drag: move (or right-drag)
1–5: recent colours
[ ]: previous, next colour
Arrows, Enter: move the pointer, place
+ −: zoom
Ctrl Z: undo your last pixels
P L I B: draw, line, pick, brush size
M E T: map, explore, tools
F3: debug overlay

Patchwork

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An endless canvas that everyone paints together, one pixel at a time.

Today in Patchwork

Joining the world.

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Made by Gavin Kohn · thewoob.com

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No accounts, no cookies, no tracking. Nothing is kept about who you are or who placed which pixel; your view, colours and tools are remembered on this device only. Pictures stay until someone paints over them; flags last ninety days.

Patchwork: an endless pixel canvas you paint with everyone