Hello!  Welcome to the Google Documents Canvas Project (Ganvas for short). This is a little experiment on creating collabrative art using Google Spreadsheets.

Active Ganvases

View an active Google Spreadsheet Canvas! Chat about it!

Active Ganvas #1 (RS)

Gallery of Awesome

Via the active Ganvas links above you can see the spreadsheets being worked on in real time, and also chat with other viewers about them. I am not sure how many concurrent viewers it can handle, but we'll find out...  Alternatively, you can look at some of the best art that people have made on a Ganvas in the gallery.

The Basic Idea

Google Spreadsheets is a wonderful thing. Up to 50 people can edit one spreadsheet at the same time!

Spreadsheets in general are wonderful things. Ignoring the fact that they make lots of number-crunching easier and prevent accountants all over the world from going suicidal, it is a great way of making grids on the computer. A premade grid sits there, waiting for you to change its cells.

Now combine those two ideas: with Google Spreadsheets up to 50 people can simutaneously create pixel art via coloring the cells of a Google Spreadsheet!

How It Works

So, under the ganvas Google account several Google Documents spreadsheets (the ganvases) are created. Once you sign up, you will become a collaborater of one or more of them. Then all you need to do is to sign into Google Documents, open up one of those spreadsheets, and start coloring cells along with other people. Once you (and your ganvas bunndies) think that you have something awesome and worthy of preservation, just send it to the ganvas GMail account and I'll put it up in the gallery.

Read the official rules and instructions here. 

Or read the FAQ! 

Signing Up 

To sign up, check out the sign up page for details. 

Legal and Other Crap

All of the infrastructured used in this project are properties of Google. I do not claim ownership of GMail, Google Documents, etc. or any of their trademarks. Ganvas has nothing to do with Google. The name is a clever contraction of "Google", the provider of the tools necessary for this project, and "canvas", something that you draw on. The point of this project is to make pretty and awesome things. Really, that's it.