Inspiration
To connect people together in a more non-traditional manner in post-pandemic times, we think of the use of imagery massages to establish connections. Our idea is inspired from the famous r/place event. Building on that, we want to make an interactive canvas that help people meet each other.
What it does
The canvas theoretically allows every client to freely draw what they want, and attach their personal links to their works. There is only one large canvas that is visible to the public; at each time of page visiting, the displayed portion of the canvas is arbitrary. We encourage users to view others' works as a mean to connect people of similar interests.
How we built it
We built our project based an open-source repo by fzf404. We developed codes in javascript, html, etc. to give visual and partial functional demonstration of how the interactive canvas would appear and work.
Challenges we ran into
Our team didn't have much experience in visual-heavy web app development. We tried a lot of scripts and environments for the first time, and ran into difficulties when trying to understand codes from public domain. Our outcome has limited functions, but should sketch out what we envision.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
It has been exciting us to learn lots of web devdeloping tools that weren't familiar to us and to connect with mentors and other hackers discussing what to work on!
What we learned
Tons of notes for using node.js, React, VS Code, GitHub, etc. We also find collaboration meaningful and effective.
What's next for Interactive Canvas
We would love to develop more functions that we planned to, including displaying info when hovering, liking others' works, online editing in sync.
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