The 6th canvas brought with it a new game mechanic: pixels could only be placed next to immediately adjacent pixels (above, below, to the left, or to the right). This forced players to draw outlines of their images fully, without being able to simply set up corners and claiming territory that way. Claims were still made - primary on Discord - and although it seems as though this mechanic would slow factions down, it almost made them go faster as each player could quickly see the other players' pixels being placed right behind theirs.
Another mechanic that was brought back several times was a reduced cooldown between placing pixels. This let players place many more pixels in a given time frame than they could otherwise, and led to spurts of growth.
Canvas states
Initial canvas state
Final canvas state
Timelapses
Timelapses generated from log files.
webm/vp9/YUV444p [67.5MB] (great quality, limited compatibility)
mp4/h.264/YUV420p [124.5MB] (best compatibility)
Animated GIF [85.1MB] (best quality, no playback controls)
vimeo.com/pxlsfiddle/canvas6 (hosted at Vimeo)
webm/vp9/YUV444p [25.6MB] (great quality, limited compatibility)
mp4/h.264/YUV420p [37.0MB] (best compatibility)
Animated GIF [25.2MB] (best quality, no playback controls)
webm/vp9/YUV444p [33.4MB] (great quality, limited compatibility)
mp4/h.264/YUV420p [61.5MB] (best compatibility)
Animated GIF [49.8MB] (best quality, no playback controls)
webm/vp9/YUV444p [43.3MB] (great quality, limited compatibility)
mp4/h.264/YUV420p [52.0MB] (best compatibility)
Animated GIF [29.3MB] (best quality, no playback controls)
Analyses
Click canvas images to toggle between analysis and final image.Palette (24):
Canvas dimensions: 2000x2000 (4,000,000 pixels)
Total placeable pixels: 4,000,000 (100.0%)
Final pixel coverage: 2,288,825 (57.22%)
Total actions taken: 3,016,483
Pixels placed: 2,832,563 (93.9%)
User undo actions: 19,635 (0.65%)
Mod actions: 164,285 (5.45%)
Accounts active: 7,787
| Nth pixel placed | by User |
|---|---|
| First | Sorunome |
| 10th | deferter |
| 100th | Neato |
| 1,000th | Dog3rDK |
| 10,000th | Dog3rDK |
| 100,000th | LinkAndTrends |
| Last | __ |
Final state
Untouched pixels
Pixels that were never placed on (also referred to as virgin pixels), depicted in white.
Pixel age
Age of pixels as a brightness map. Darker pixels were placed longer ago.
Heat map
Depicting activity on the canvas as a heat map - the brighter a pixel's color, the more often it was placed on.
Pixel placement times
combined
Pixel placement timesSmooth rainbows indicate bot-like behavior.
milliseconds
Pixel placement times in milliseconds.Smooth regions strongly indicate bot-like behavior.
seconds
Pixel placement times in secondsComb-effect regions may indicate bot-like behavior.
minutes
Pixel placement times in minutesGradients indicate pixel placement directions.
activity
Activity on the canvas as measured over days (horizontal axis, left is start of canvas) and hours (vertical axis, bottom is start of day). Hours are in CET.
colors over time
Total pixels of a given color placed over time, graphed.Source: zip:colors.csv,colors.ods
Pixels removed
Pixels locations where pixels were removedUser undo (green), server undo (blue), and mod rollbacks (red)
Heatmap of server undo, and mod rollbacks
Top 100 pixelers
The top 100 pixel placers on this canvas.
LeeSpork's planet
One thing that stood out on this canvas after its ending and analyses was Discord user LeeSpork#8175's planet. The planet was not entirely constructed by this user, with many users chipping in to finish it before the canvas would reset.
Through no coordination, users built the planet from the outside inward, giving the pixel age map a very distinctive look.
When first observed, it was noted that it looked a lot like the destruction of Vulcan in the 2009 "Star Trek" reboot movie.
