There is an empty canvas. You may place a pixel upon it, but you must wait to place another. Individually you can create something. Together you can create something more.
Back in 2017 for the first incarnation of r/place, u/draemmli started a project called r/placeAtlas, a catalog containing all the artworks created for the r/place event during that time.
For the 2022 incarnation, we decided to continue this project, documenting the amazing variety and talent that was produced (and then... erased...). This project, the 2022 r/place Atlas, can be explored at https://place-atlas.stefanocoding.me (or, until it gets the reddit hug-of-death).
This project is community-driven, relying on accurate, detailed, and objective submissions from everyone (much like Wikipedia). To help us document the artwork of the 2022's r/place, head over to r/placeAtlas2 and read the stickied posts. It details everything you need to know to make a contribution.
All of our work is open source on GitHub, so if you feel like lending a hand with development, maintenance, and fixing errors, head on over to https://github.com/Codixer/place-atlas. Any and all contributions are welcome!
This work wouldn't have been possible without the help of the rest of the team; u/prosto_sanja for providing images, u/electric-blue for help with the pull requests and maintaining the server, u/xXLInkster17Xx for coming up with ideas and maintaining the bots, u/m654zy for adding submissions and corrections to the atlas and u/imskyyc reviewing PR’s and working on a vue-based version of the atlas.
I also want to thank the creators of the first Atlas project, as I couldn't have done it all on my own. And thanks to u/draemmli especially - without his version of the atlas, this project wouldn't have existed. His project can still be explored at https://draemm.li/various/place-atlas/
And a special thanks to all the contributors on the r/placeAtlas2 subreddit. We would have never reached 4000+ entries without your help.
Our Discord: https://discord.gg/WfGAy6PKm9
Lmao
Not scary, just people annoyed with society focus on cars.
ngl, it is interesting to have entire cities/homes built around cars rather than people.
BUT, i'm not sure how fond i'd be of a megalopolis like Tokyo or NYC where it's built around walking and not cars?
Tokyo is already extremely walkable lmao
Agreed. In fact many cities that aren’t American are incredibly walkable. This FuckCars thing is probably a response to just how un-walkable and anti-pedestrian many American cities and townships are.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modal_share
Look at the list of cities further down
Tokyo is already one of the least car dependent cities in the world
New York is one of the least dependent in the US
There's a lot that can be done by developing the missing middle density. We wouldn't need or want to build skyscrapers everywhere, but we could encourage more 4-5 story buildings for example. They could even include mixed use, which is where there's often a first floor of commercial space on the street level with a few residential levels above that. Imagine if you were able to get your morning coffee or breakfast sandwich just by walking downstairs rather than by driving down the street.
The alternative for building cities around cars is not just megalopolis. There are plenty examples of smaller cities and towns that reducing or banning cars from their city centers in Netherlands / Europe. (For example. Delft, Utrecht and Amsterdam itself)
r/walkablestreets
I had no idea that subreddit even existed but they did a great job of presenting their cause 🤣
As someone who loves cars I obviously don't love their name and while I know the purpose of the sub isn't to be anti-car so much as anti-carcentric infrastructure I cannot argue that their part of r/place was absolutely perfect in demonstrating what the subreddit was meant to be about.
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There’s already one under construction with plenty of info on it already!
Check it out:
https://place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/
Really wasn't sure if it was fuck cars or fuck ears lol I'm thinking what do people have against ears?
Vincent Van Gogh says: “what?”
Oooh there were definitely people messing with the text then lol
I mean, there were people messing with text ALL over the canvas. Especially when there was a link to something, they’d change “com” to…you can think to what!
The battle of the word Cars was real lol, it had incarnations from cops to ears along the road to completion
They are basically the antiwork of city planning. More public transport and more walkable cities would be nice but outright banning cars is fucking stupid. But hey with less people on the roads more room for me to blast down the road at limit breaking speeds
Can we go back in time and view descriptions for stuff that was covered up? A lot of cool images were overtaken overtime, especially towards the end, by streamers or other.
We're working on something for this, but please work with the current changes to make it as quick and easy as possible for us to maintain this project.
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Yes, if Reddit does a datadump of the last pixel that was placed without color. Then we should be able to update it.
This might help: https://rplace.space/combined/
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Happy cake day!
Ah yes. When poland put two empy flags and erased art. I remember that
Thank you!!
That would be cool to be able to put in descriptions of all the stuff on the chessboard that was taken over by a streamer near the end
Hello Place,
This is one of many community-led projects that is enriching the r/place experience. If you are working on any other projects to document or improve upon the r/place experience, we'd love to hear about it in the replies under this comment.
Hey u/ggAlex - Will we be seeing any kind of official data release from Reddit like we did from u/Drunken_Economist back in 2017? This event was fantastic year, great job!
Yes
I think it is important that this data (the whole process not just the last canvas before the whiteout) is preserved and published, since this is the actual artwork. The timelapses and screenshots are cool and all but that's like taking a photo of a painting or doing a summary of a book.
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The pixel placement data has serious anthropological value. Thank you for this. A torrent of a giant list of (x,y,color,username) would be absolutely incredible for community visualizations and analysis
Will account age be part of this dataset? I’d be interested in seeing how much of the canvas was from pre-existing subreddit communities vs say, brought in my Twitch
I'd be interested to see account activity. Which accounts placed a pixel every 5 minutes for 4 days straight without missing a beat? Which accounts could place a pixel less than every 5 minutes?
Reddit probably won’t release that since they rely on an inflated number of users to charge more for ad space.
I believe they didn't include exact user names in the previous one, and they were hashed
We really need this. In 2017 someone made an interactive, zoomable timelapse using the released data, and I’m dying for someone to do the same for this year.
Thank you so much for the link!
No problem! :)
we need the "True final" canvas data
What was the last surviving non-white pixel?
What pixel changed the most? What pixel changed the least? What pixel survived the longest with no change?
And if possible, who had pixels placed on the final, non-white image? Who had the most?
Funny that this map is far better than what twitter Reddit could post LMAO
We where looking for the most neutral "This is r/place" image possible. And we're working on a timeslider version of the same site as well.
Or in other words... We're not done yet.
A time slider you say? Now this is exciting!
we can slide time easily if we think fourth-dimensionally.
Are yous gonna have a full download for everything at all? Like the whole piece
Yeah it’s hard to sum up all the events in the past few days in a single image. Good job for the effort.
P.S. cake
Agreed. Numerous epochs.
P.s.s. Cake
dude, where's the cussy??
I was hoping someone would make a high-res pixel-perfect timelapses once the data got released, but a slider would be so much cooler!
Will there be a Reddit official data release? Anyway thank you for helping make this all happen :)
There will be.
Awesome, thank you. If you don't mind me asking, what's your opinion on u/Chtorrr using their moderator status to turn off their timer and place as many pixels as they please during the event? Will there be any repercussions held against them?
Thanks for replying and once again, thanks for everything :)
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Does that include flags that destroyed art just to expand their flags? If so, that would be awesome.
Either way, this sounds like a really cool project!
I want to see the entire final piece as it was, though. That's part of the whole deal. an nft promotion is very 2022 Plus that sounds like a slippery slope
And you can still do that! The whole point of this is so there is also a "cleaner" version of the map available which better represents the pixel art that many people have collaborated to create here. But I do agree that the anarchy is part of the whole appeal
I think “better” is a pretty nebulous concept here, and probably not agreed upon by everyone. A pixel art image is just an image, a pixel art image with a couple pixels vandalized or amongused is an expression of internet interaction
I don’t understand why you wish to censor the canvas. I hate NFTs as much as the next guy, but if that was on the canvas then it should be there in the cleaned up version.
Well true, but if someone wants to use that clean version, I think it's nice that it would be available
u/DannywPeterson and others were talking about turning it into a puzzle - I think this would be an incredible way to really appreciate the art, since this way while doing the puzzle people will really get to look at every tiny artwork that was on the canvas!!
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Oh totally! It’s also the perfect “I spy” image too but ofc… nsfw hahah
Are we getting a pixel data dump like last time?
Working hard or hardly working amiright
I was wondering instead of just a description of each design, would there be a way to incorporate videos showing more detailed views of how each piece evolved? For example, I was part of r/DeepRockGalactic and someone uploaded a time lapse of just our work - how it evolved, alliances we formed, how we fought back against the void, ect. I think it would cool if people could click on these videos and learn about all the little stories that may not have been as big as say, the Canada leaf saga, but were still a part of what made this artwork special.
If you don't rock and stone you ain't coming home
I've been trying to plug r/TimelapsesofPlace when I can. We have been documenting timelapses back from 2017 of the whole canvas and of interesting smaller events that played out.
i didnt just enrich it. I remade it. See the map and continue its history on https://rplace.tk
Hi, I made a project for my newborn (today) son " green little cross ". I think this can intersting those who draw during this community event. (thanks by the way)
I tell my story here : https://www.reddit.com/r/httyd/comments/tx2560/little_green_cross_rplace_project_for_my_son/
Hope you will like it ;)
I would love to see total number of user participation per each artwork.
I'd like for users to see how many total pixels they placed, and how many everyone placed.
I want to see some numbers please.
r/thefinalclean is a project for cleaning up and denoising the final canvas (or what we had right before the whiteout) as well as doing minor art restoration where art was wrecked and left blank. We've got a little over 1000 submissions of peoples' art right now and about 70 people actively working on the project in Discord.
u/PitsPower's data on the Among Us crewmates that cropped up all around the r/place canvas is fascinating, with comprehensive breakdowns on the different variants and colours:
https://www.reddit.com/r/place/comments/twgtuz/final_amongi_count_is_2000/
https://www.reddit.com/r/place/comments/tvx4md/amongi_count_2823/