Online Coloring Book

[Don Morton]

Hi.

I think it'd be cool to create an online coloring book utilizing
HTML5's canvas/drawing features.

Anyone who can add to this concept,
feel free to jump in.

[Shaquille Johnson]

Wouldn't an online coloring book be a bit cumbersome? I mean think of
the limits of coloring with a mouse, and using paint would take less
effort.

By the way what do you mean by 'create'?

[Raphael]

I think it would be awesome. Given HTML5s capabilities. It would be good to step outside of the "paint" box..  

[Andrés]

With paint you can't have two people painting at the same time ... one
in Chicago and one in Hong Kong :-) Also, a mouse is not the only
thing one can use as an input device nowadays ...

I also think this would be awesome and great for kids using
touchscreen devices.

On Jul 29, 3:00 pm, Raphael <raphaelalle...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I think it would be awesome. Given HTML5s capabilities. It would be good to
> step outside of the "paint" box..
>

[Shaquille Johnson]

Would it be like making a better paint, one that worked in a more user friendly fashion. If it's online there could even be a gallery of other users work and maybe a user submission form. But why do want an online coloring book?

[Donzo Mortini]

Now you're thinking.
It'd be great if users could upload their own background images.

Either stuff that they find on Google Images or their own photos.

[Brock Angelo]

I can vouch for that - my kids' regularly ask me "Can I play Doodle Buddy on your iPod?"  An HTML5 version of DoodleBuddy would be a nice intro project with room for growth.

[Donzo Mortini]

Why do anything?

[Brock Angelo]

Where's the like button? :)

[Raphael]

That is true, it would be really cool if it had a collaborative feature for kids to share drawing or work on a large drawing together. 

On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 3:04 PM, Andrés <agonz...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Shaquille Johnson]

You do have a point. Doing nothing is a pain. That sort of thing could
be interesting as a starters project. It might even have some
popularity if it were to ally with DeviantArt and their army of
artist. There are often those who can draw but can't color and put up
their lined worked for others to finish. So an online coloring book
could in fact be a powerful tool. But how will it be designed? On
entrance would it be split into many sections or bring up one random
pic for others to draw?

On Jul 29, 3:08 pm, Donzo Mortini <mortonteac...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Why do anything?

> On Jul 29, 2011 3:07 PM, "Shaquille Johnson" <grachia...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Would it be like making a better paint, one that worked in a more user
> > friendly fashion. If it's online there could even be a gallery of other
> > users work and maybe a user submission form. But why do want an online
> > coloring book?
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> > On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Raphael <raphaelalle...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> >> I think it would be awesome. Given HTML5s capabilities. It would be good
> to
> >> step outside of the "paint" box..
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> >> On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 2:56 PM, Shaquille Johnson <grachia...@gmail.com

[Raphael]

I think it could have categories to choose what part of a picture or drawing the user would like to participate on. And each section would pertain to only that work. and the ability to combine each category into one single completed picture.

[John Schuster]

it could just give them a section to work on.

[Raphael]

Ok, got a meeting at work. Brb!

[Shaquille Johnson]

Why not do both? This is a learning experience, why don't we learn to
randomize things and put in all the options that people would normally
use. We would have to know the diff. sections of art work that artist
use like shading, lighting, etc., but all that can be found using
wiki.

On Jul 29, 3:23 pm, Raphael <raphaelalle...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ok, got a meeting at work. Brb!
>

[Donzo Mortini]

Well, I know My homie John is in on this, and Raphael sounds in. 

You other dudes are of course welcome.

I suppose that we should break the job into smaller parts. 

Each to his (or her) own skill.

Some ideas include:

1. Thinking of a name.
2. Designing a logo.
3. Creating an interactive canvas
4. Creating a means of uploading images to the canvas.
5.  Creating different methods or functions to interact with the canvas.
6.  Creating a way to save/share products.
7.  Designing the web site.
8.  Establishing a user log in system.
9. Creating a means to comment on other's work.
10. Creating a method of buddy coloring.

Many of these tasks are optional, but this should give us some semblance of direction.

On Jul 29, 2011 3:20 PM, "Raphael" <raphael...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Raphael]

Sounds like a plan to me! I would prefer sketching the UI and functional logic first, maybe some pseudo code before  starting the development process. Which would mean we would need a place to meet.

How difficult or easy would it be for you guys to get downtown?

Raphael

[Brock Angelo]

Count me in - this would be more fun than my Password Manager idea. I'm two hours south and wouldn't be able to drive in before the Hackathon, but could be available via phone / video chat.

On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Donzo Mortini <morton...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Donzo Mortini]

Well, if I can bring the seed, I might be able to stop by tomorrow or Monday.

[Raphael]

I see. I just work downtown and didn't know if others were in the area. We'll figure something out

[Donzo Mortini]

I could do 5 to 8 tonight too,
but again, I'd need to bring the little man (7 months)

[Raphael]

I can't tonight, I have previous arrangements.

[Donzo Mortini]

We could brain storm at my spot too.  I stay in Lincoln Square, right off the Brownline.  I'd be able to rally from 5 to 11.

[Donzo Mortini]

Well Saturday same times, or perhaps this is a long

[Donzo Mortini]

This might be a long distance project.

[Raphael]

If I can't make it tonight, tomorrow afternoon or evening works for me?

[Raphael]

Long distance works. Everyone on github?

[Brock Angelo]

LD is good for me. Yes @ github

[Donzo Mortini]

Cool man. If you want to swing through and put some stuff together tomorrow evening, we could get a good head start and get some tasks laid out for the rest of the team.

[Donzo Mortini]

Whatever whatever.

[Raphael]

Ok cool. I'll email back tonight or early tomorrow to let you know when I'm available.

Raph

[Brock Angelo]

I could be available by phone or video tomorrow afternoon/evening as well.

[Raphael]

Awesome. Glad to see its coming together quickly!

[John Schuster]

groupcoloringbook.com

[Donzo Mortini]

Nice move, John.
Way to get those key words in.

On Jul 29, 2011 4:54 PM, "John Schuster" <john.s...@gmail.com> wrote:
> groupcoloringbook.com

[Brock Angelo]

No, we need something more descriptive. :)

[Donzo Mortini]

Here are some links to get people thinking about
how this might work.

I don't know if it will be possible to utilize all
of these features by Wednesday,

but it'd be cool:

Multi User Drawing Code
http://www.unionplatform.com/?page_id=2762

Touch Input
http://tenderlovingcode.com/blog/web-apps/html5-canvas-drawing-on-ipad/

Painting over an Image
http://code.google.com/p/paintweb/

Code Fiddle
http://jsfiddle.net/ArtBIT/kneDX/

Paint Application Tutorial 1
http://www.williammalone.com/articles/create-html5-canvas-javascript-drawing-app/#subTitle15

Paint Application Tutorial 2
http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/html5-canvas-painting/

[Raphael]

Cool, thanks. I'll mull over it this weekend. I think I may have extra free time tomorrow to meet up as well. Let me know what time works

Raph

[Brock Angelo]

Thanks. Will read by tomorrow

[Dan]

Any chance I could get in on this project?

On Jul 29, 11:20 am, Don Morton <mortonteac...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I think it'd be cool to create an online coloring book utilizing
> HTML5's canvas/drawing features.
>
> Anyone who can add to this concept,
> feel free to jump in.

[Raphael]

Absolutely!

[Donzo Mortini]

You're in, Dan.

[Dan]

Thanks I am free to meet up on Saturday or I could be in the city at
the earliest by like 6-6:30 on a weekday

On Jul 29, 11:23 pm, Donzo Mortini <mortonteac...@gmail.com> wrote:
> You're in, Dan.

[Donzo Mortini]

You guys can stop by my place
tonight if you're available.

Or, we can connect remotely.
Whatever's clever.

I'm available 5-11,
but the shorty doesn't go down until around 7:30,
so my attention may be divided.

That shouldn't stop you guys, though.
I stay at California and Argyle.

Call or text for the address:

Don
815-651-0709

Also,
I fucked around a little bit last night and got
a functioning mouse drawing tool working.

http://www.elfamail.com/hackathon/coloring-test.html

Click on the canvas to draw a line.

Not much,
but it's a start:

[Raphael]

Sounds cool to me, I'll probably be available sometime 6p. I can meet up remotely as well.

My cell is:312-758-4450.

Raphael

[Brock Angelo]

6pm would work really well for me too. Don, would you want to start a Join.me session, send us the conference number and we could all call in?

Brock
217.689.1510

[Donzo Mortini]

Sounds good.

[Brock Angelo]

Wow - there are some pretty cool demos in here. Here's the tangent I'm playing around with this afternoon until we meet:

I'm adding a feature so that you can use your camera or gallery to set one of your own photos as the backdrop, then draw on that (kind of like you see in football games on TV)

This is all being implemented with local storage, but if we allowed sharing via the site, then tagged with geolocation and displayed on a google map...

[Antonio Challita]

Like it!

[Donzo Mortini]

Now you're thinking, Brock.
Let's do this!

[Brock Angelo]

As far as a logo, I can't think of a more appropriate use of one of my all-time favorite memes:

http://goo.gl/sP56j

[Raphael]

Dude that is sweet!

[Donzo Mortini]

https://join.me/546-320-369

I've never used this application before,
but it looks pretty nifty.

[Raphael]

Hey guys, I ran into some issues to take care of but I will be joining in sometime later. Let me know if there anything needed before the end of the night. I will check my email regularly.

Raph

[Brock Angelo]

Just hopped back in.

[Donzo Mortini]

Where you at, Brock?

Jump in.

[Brock Angelo]

I came back and it said the meeting was closed. Trying again.

[pying]

Hmm you guys could build off this:

webapp
http://chromabrush.com/

source
http://code.google.com/p/chromabrush/

On Jul 29, 2:00 pm, Donzo Mortini <mortonteac...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This might be a long distance project.
> On Jul 29, 2011 3:59 PM, "Donzo Mortini" <mortonteac...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Jul 29, 2011 3:57 PM, "Donzo Mortini" <mortonteac...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> We could brain storm at my spot too. I stay in Lincoln Square, right off
> >> the Brownline. I'd be able to rally from 5 to 11.

> >> On Jul 29, 2011 3:55 PM, "Donzo Mortini" <mortonteac...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> I could do 5 to 8 tonight too,
> >>> but again, I'd need to bring the little man (7 months)

> >>> On Jul 29, 2011 3:52 PM, "Donzo Mortini" <mortonteac...@gmail.com>

> wrote:
> >>>> Well, if I can bring the seed, I might be able to stop by tomorrow or
> >>>> Monday.

> >>>> On Jul 29, 2011 3:48 PM, "Raphael" <raphaelalle...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>> Sounds like a plan to me! I would prefer sketching the UI and
> > functional
> >>>>> logic first, maybe some pseudo code before starting the development
> >>>>> process. Which would mean we would need a place to meet.
>
> >>>>> How difficult or easy would it be for you guys to get downtown?
>
> >>>>> Raphael
>
> >>>>> On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Donzo Mortini <
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> mortonteac...@gmail.com

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> >>>>>wrote:
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> >>>>>> Well, I know My homie John is in on this, and Raphael sounds in.
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> >>>>>> You other dudes are of course welcome.
>
> >>>>>> I suppose that we should break the job into smaller parts.
>
> >>>>>> Each to his (or her) own skill.
>
> >>>>>> Some ideas include:
>
> >>>>>> 1. Thinking of a name.
> >>>>>> 2. Designing a logo.
> >>>>>> 3. Creating an interactive canvas
> >>>>>> 4. Creating a means of uploading images to the canvas.
> >>>>>> 5. Creating different methods or functions to interact with the
> > canvas.
> >>>>>> 6. Creating a way to save/share products.
> >>>>>> 7. Designing the web site.
> >>>>>> 8. Establishing a user log in system.
> >>>>>> 9. Creating a means to comment on other's work.
> >>>>>> 10. Creating a method of buddy coloring.
>
> >>>>>> Many of these tasks are optional, but this should give us some
> >> semblance
> >>>> of
> >>>>>> direction.

> >>>>>> On Jul 29, 2011 3:20 PM, "Raphael" <raphaelalle...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Raphael]

Thanks pying!